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"Philosophy must be both critical and self-critical."

— Kwasi Wiredu

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"The careful study of our own traditional philosophies should be combined with insights from the intellectual resources of the modern world."

"The ideal of consensus seeks decisions that all concerned can live with."

"Democracy by consensus is by no means a contradiction in terms."

"By conceptual decolonization I mean the divesting of African philosophical thinking of all undue influences emanating from foreign traditions."

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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