Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.

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

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.

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

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

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.