Rhinehart Quotes

#1. I am George Cockcroft. But when I come to England or Europe, where the name Luke Rhinehart is better known, then I use that name.

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#2. With determination and dice, I am God.

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#3. In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book.

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#4. Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

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#5. Indecisive? Uncertain? Worried? Let the rolling ivory tumble your burdens away. $2.50 per pair.

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#6. Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

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#7. Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.

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#8. All belief is the least reliable form of knowing ... Where there is a natural knowing of God, there is not need for belief. The highest form of certainty is something you know so thoroughly and so naturally that it's impossible to put into words.

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#9. When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six months I told my mother she was damned to hell. That wasn't much fun. I abandoned it.

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#10. To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed.

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#11. Psychoanalysis seemed an expensive, slow working, unreliable tranquilizer. If LSD were really to do what
Alpert and Leary claimed for it, all psychiatrists would be out of a job overnight.

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#12. Love is one of society's many socially accepted forms of madness.

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#13. Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

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#14. I am born anew at each green fall of the die, and by die-ing I eliminate my since. The past - paste, pus, piss - is all only illusory events created by a stone mask to justify an illusory stagnant present.

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#15. Everything may evaporate at any instant. Everything!' I said with surprising vehemence. 'You, me, the most rocklike personality since Calving Coolidge; death, destruction, despair may strike. To live your life assuming otherwise is insanity.

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#16. As your Zen says, go with the flow, even if the flow is meaningless.

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#17. We got married: society's solution to loneliness, lust and laundry.

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#18. It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom - is not human. He's insane.

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#19. We are blind to the worlds within us, waiting to be born.

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#20. Part of the philosophy of 'The Dice Man' is that you have got to be laughing at yourself at every moment and be free of yourself at every moment.

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#21. Men must attempt to develop in themselves and their children liberation from the sense of self.
Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and
consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways.

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#22. From children to men we cage ourselves in patterns to avoid facing new problems and possible failure; after a while men become bored because there are no new problems. Such is life under the fear of failure.

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#23. The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.

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#24. Dealing dreams and destruction to a pattern plagued world.

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#25. Every man's personal proverb about himself is: "Whatever is, is right, in the best of all possible people." The

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#26. Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom they try to convert.

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#27. I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

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#28. The exciting isolation of leaning against the wind on the highway hitchhiking, waiting for someone to stop and offer me a lift, perhaps to a town three miles down the road, perhaps to new friendship, perhaps to death.

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#29. 'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.

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#30. Understand yourself, accept yourself, but do not be yourself.

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#31. You're all murdering life ... You're all trying to change yourselves, all trying to change what is, and thus you're never actually living what is. You're killing who you are every day of your lives by not being who you are ... where you are.

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#32. And it's his illusions about what
constitutes the real world which are inhibiting him ... His reality, his reason, his society ... These are what must be destroyed

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#33. Tell me the manner in which a patient commits suicide and I'll tell you how he can be cured

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#34. You're a classic case of Horney's: the man who comforts himself not with what he achieves, but with what he dreams of achieving.

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