One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much.

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.

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

Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could not establish a universal law because he had not observed every falling apple, much less proved the law of gravity - there might, after all, be an apple that levitates! Why should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry?

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?

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.