If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

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.

A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not.

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

The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.