Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

I do believe there's a human right to experiment with your consciousness, as long as you're harming no one else.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection. To call what happens 'the placebo effect' is just to give a name to something we don't understand.

'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed.

It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.'

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived.

You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I’m not saying that the truth doesn’t matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

The most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that they see in it (Illuminati) the true and genuine sense of Christian Religion. Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?