The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good.

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

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.