Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.

If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.