Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.

If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.