The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.

The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.

But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.