Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.