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.

We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good.

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

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.

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?

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.

... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.