Graham Hancock Quotes

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

If you lend your consciousness to someone else, you're a robot.

Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has been greatly strengthened, for a truly free man does not like to play the part of either the ruler or the ruled. He is, above all, concerned with making his inner values and personal powers effective in a way as to permit him to use his own judgment in all affairs and to be independent in action.

Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.

Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to be effective in the way it was originally intended to be.

I live as I choose or I will not live at all.

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.

I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

It's about whatever I want to make it about. It's my world.

You are free to announce and declare Who You Are in every moment of Now. Indeed, you are doing so, without even knowing it. You are not free, however, to declare who someone else is, or who they must be.

Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

Let no one who can be his own belong to another.