If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not.

Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.

As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of 'mind' with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l' esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part.

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.