I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.

You cannot rationalize what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called truthization. There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.

By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day institutions - some of them extremely vital to the functioning of our complex civilization - simply fail to exist in the first place.

This is one of theprimary mechanisms whereby, if a fool says the sun is shining, we do notcorrectly discard this as irrelevant nonevidence, but rather find ourselvesimpelled to say that it must be dark outside.