...for since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.