The past is no farther away than your pillow.

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

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.

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.

Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you’ve always known.

The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.