It is true that men themselves made this world of nations. . . but this world without doubt … - Giambattista Vico

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The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

Giambattista Vico

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations. . . but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

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Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

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Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

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The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

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The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

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One truly understands only what one can create.

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