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Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
 
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
 
We create the world that we perceive, not because there is no reality outside our heads, but because we select and edit the reality we see to conform to our beliefs about what sort of world we live in. The man who believes that the resources of the world are infinite, for example, or that if something is good for you then the more of it the better, will not be able to see his errors, because he will not look for evidence of them. For a man to change the basic beliefs that determine his perception - his epistemological premises - he must first become aware that reality is not necessarily as he believes it to be. Sometimes the dissonance between reality and false beliefs reaches a point when it becomes impossible to avoid the awareness that the world no longer makes sense. Only then is it possible for the mind to consider radically different ideas and perceptions.
 
Only sick music makes money today.
 
We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.
 
There can never be surprises in logic.
 
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
 
In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.
 
If you have to boil this book down to a single phrase, it would be "it's complicated".
 
At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
 
I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.
 
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
 
The demand to be safe in relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. This seeking for security is inviting insecurity. Have you ever found security in any of your relationships? Have you? Most of us want the security of loving and being loved, but is there love when each one of us is seeking his own security, his own particular path? We are not loved because we don't know how to love.
 
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
 
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
 
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
 
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
 
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
 
Love consists of overestimating the differences between one woman and another.
 
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
 
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