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

The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

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

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

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.