I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.