Belief is the death of intelligence.
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
. . . an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
. . . when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.
. . . reality is always plural and mutable.
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.
“Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.
Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.
In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.