Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.