The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.