Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only say, "This model"- or theory, or interpretation of the data- "fits more of the facts known at this date than any rival model." We can never know if the model will fit the facts that might come to light in the next millennium or even in the next week.

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other; as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.

If you want to be happy, practise it every day

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.