If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.

I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing.

99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just an arbitrary rule this rule of definition that Socrates set down.

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.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.