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Top 10 Gary Lachman Quotes (2025 Update)

Gary Lachman Quote: “In 1969 Morrison said, ‘Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

1. “In 1969 Morrison said, ‘Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

— Gary Lachman

Gary Lachman Quote: “Too much meaning incapacitates the will. Not enough meaning gives us nothing to will for.”

2. “Too much meaning incapacitates the will. Not enough meaning gives us nothing to will for.”

— Gary Lachman

Gary Lachman Quote: “The spirit world shuts not its gates. Your mind is closed, your heart is dead.”

3. “The spirit world shuts not its gates. Your mind is closed, your heart is dead.”

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Gary Lachman Quote: “Post-modernism ‘ironises’ out all questions of meaning. It reduces everything to the ‘been there, done that’ mentality, and shrinks the world to a theory of everything that can fit on a T-shirt. It lets us off the hook. We no longer have to be good, just good enough. It lowers the existential bar, and moves the metaphysical goal posts closer, or gets rid of them entirely.”

4. “Post-modernism ‘ironises’ out all questions of meaning. It reduces everything to the ‘been there, done that’ mentality, and shrinks the world to a theory of everything that can fit on a T-shirt. It lets us off the hook. We no longer have to be good, just good enough. It lowers the existential bar, and moves the metaphysical goal posts closer, or gets rid of them entirely.”

— Gary Lachman

Gary Lachman Quote: “Everything that liberates our mind without at the same time imparting self-control is pernicious’.”

5. “Everything that liberates our mind without at the same time imparting self-control is pernicious’.”

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Gary Lachman Quote: “In 1593, soon after Marlowe’s murder, a troop of English actors brought a production of the Tragical History of Doctor Faustus to Germany. Through some metamorphosis, the tragedy became a comedy, and the comedy was then transformed into a puppet show. It was more than likely in this form that the young Goethe first came upon what would become his most famous work.”

6. “In 1593, soon after Marlowe’s murder, a troop of English actors brought a production of the Tragical History of Doctor Faustus to Germany. Through some metamorphosis, the tragedy became a comedy, and the comedy was then transformed into a puppet show. It was more than likely in this form that the young Goethe first came upon what would become his most famous work.”

— Gary Lachman

Gary Lachman Quote: “But the odd thing is that, while researching this material on the Internet, I was struck by the similarity between the “satanic” Web sites and the fundamentalist ones. Both used striking imagery, both exaggerated the power and importance of “the occult,” and both pandered to a taste for sensationalism, a kind of “spiritual pornography,” aimed at titillating base emotions: fear, greed, egoism, power.”

7. “But the odd thing is that, while researching this material on the Internet, I was struck by the similarity between the “satanic” Web sites and the fundamentalist ones. Both used striking imagery, both exaggerated the power and importance of “the occult,” and both pandered to a taste for sensationalism, a kind of “spiritual pornography,” aimed at titillating base emotions: fear, greed, egoism, power.”

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Gary Lachman Quote: “Manson didn’t ‘kill the sixties’, as some have suggested. They committed suicide, ODed on excess, high expectations, and a belief that in getting rid of all repression – what I’ve called ‘giving way to strange forces’ – some pure, natural soul would emerge. They were wrong.”

8. “Manson didn’t ‘kill the sixties’, as some have suggested. They committed suicide, ODed on excess, high expectations, and a belief that in getting rid of all repression – what I’ve called ‘giving way to strange forces’ – some pure, natural soul would emerge. They were wrong.”

— Gary Lachman

Gary Lachman Quote: “Truth, for Goethe, is “a revelation emerging at the point where the inner world of man meets external reality... It is a synthesis of world and mind, yielding the happiest assurance of the eternal harmony of existence.”

9. “Truth, for Goethe, is “a revelation emerging at the point where the inner world of man meets external reality... It is a synthesis of world and mind, yielding the happiest assurance of the eternal harmony of existence.”

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Gary Lachman Quote: “Each act of imagination, each moment of creative life stands up to the entire material universe and affirms the reality of meaning against the corroding solvents of entropy, dark matter, or whatever else may be dragging the physical world into oblivion.”

10. “Each act of imagination, each moment of creative life stands up to the entire material universe and affirms the reality of meaning against the corroding solvents of entropy, dark matter, or whatever else may be dragging the physical world into oblivion.”

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Gary Lachman Quote: “Like the initiate of a secret society that has broken free from the undifferentiated collectivity,” Jung wrote, “the individual on his lonely path needs a secret which for various reasons he may not or cannot reveal. Such a secret reinforces him in the isolation of his individual aims.”16 Without this secret, Jung argues, we too easily fall into the herd-mind of the mass and lose our individuality.”

11. “Like the initiate of a secret society that has broken free from the undifferentiated collectivity,” Jung wrote, “the individual on his lonely path needs a secret which for various reasons he may not or cannot reveal. Such a secret reinforces him in the isolation of his individual aims.”16 Without this secret, Jung argues, we too easily fall into the herd-mind of the mass and lose our individuality.”

— Gary Lachman

Gary Lachman Quote: “As Colin Wilson pointed out decades ago, modern man suffers from what he calls ‘the fallacy of insignificance’, the sense that nothing we do really matters, that life is meaningless, and that, in the long run, ‘you can’t win’.”

12. “As Colin Wilson pointed out decades ago, modern man suffers from what he calls ‘the fallacy of insignificance’, the sense that nothing we do really matters, that life is meaningless, and that, in the long run, ‘you can’t win’.”

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Gary Lachman Quote: “As Laing believed that what we take to be sanity is really madness, Marcuse believed that what we take to be a free society, is really a totalitarian regime, with chains made of television, processed foods and modern conveniences.”

13. “As Laing believed that what we take to be sanity is really madness, Marcuse believed that what we take to be a free society, is really a totalitarian regime, with chains made of television, processed foods and modern conveniences.”

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Gary Lachman Quote: “Students of Husserl will know his philosophy is dense and difficult, but this central insight about the intentionality of consciousness will inform everything Wilson writes from now on. As I quoted Wilson saying earlier, we have a “will to perceive as well as perceptions.” Intentionality is our will to perceive. How we can become aware of this will and learn how to consciously direct it will one aim of Wilson’s new existentialism.”

14. “Students of Husserl will know his philosophy is dense and difficult, but this central insight about the intentionality of consciousness will inform everything Wilson writes from now on. As I quoted Wilson saying earlier, we have a “will to perceive as well as perceptions.” Intentionality is our will to perceive. How we can become aware of this will and learn how to consciously direct it will one aim of Wilson’s new existentialism.”

— Gary Lachman

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