Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, its an evolved machine that we carry with us.

Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

I cant see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but theres no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.