You are never dedicated to do something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it you're presumed to fall off, into insanity. And people are very much afraid of that. I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics. There's a very close analogue there.

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

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

The pencil is mightier than the pen.