The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.

The pencil is mightier than the pen.

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.