Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!

Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.

Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.