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There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.
 
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
 
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
 
A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist, and too rich to be a communist.
 
Creativity is connecting things.
 
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
 
Rather than living our lives ourselves, we are lived by unknown and uncontrollable forces.
 
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
 
We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.
 
Thought forms in the soul in the same way clouds form in the air.
 
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
 
Up till now [the development of proto-consciousness], we can suppose, nervous systems solved the "Now what do I do?" problem by a relatively simple balancing act between a strictly limited repertoire of actions — if not the famous four F's (fight, flee, feed, or mate), then a modest elaboration of them.
 
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
 
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
 
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
 
While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.
 
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
 
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
 
Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.
 
Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.
 
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