You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time".

The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from reverting to the Neandertal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos, transformed into logos but still mythos, the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man. To feel that one is not so united, that one can accept or discard this mythos as one pleases, is not to understand what the mythos is.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you don't start with psychiatrists. If you don't like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do with either cops or psychiatrists is stay out of their way. You leave them 'till last.

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

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.