Occupation: Author Birth: January 18, 1932 Death: January 11, 2007
We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occ….
We live in our fantasies and endure our realities..
The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat..
The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now..
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea..
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable..
The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the tec….
The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is th….
Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove. And if the Thinker thinks passionately enough, the Prover will prove the thought so conclusively ….
Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of….
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave..
under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have nev….
Every nervous system creates its own "reality," minute by minute - we live inside a "bubble" of neural abstractions which we identify with reality. Y….
I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and n….
Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back ….
Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are….
"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have al….
All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in ….
Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does n….
My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking ….
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything..