The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers' blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text.

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.

Two half truths do not make a truth.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition.