“To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise…Let him take a course of chymistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.”
July 21, 2009, 11:53am
As I come to the end of my life, there are four times as many registered astrologers in the United States as there are physicists and chemists. Four times as many. The wife of our sometime Prime Minister wears an amulet against “space rays.” There is not a corner of our lives now that is not invented, invited, invaded by idiocy of irrational superstition, [such as] people who pay vast sums to have some fake Oriental arrange their furniture. Vast sums! The whole New Age — this is a charlatan’s age like never before. It makes the Middle Ages seem scientific in many ways. And all around me, in people I deeply respect, you scratch the surface and there is a frightened, profoundly superstitious person doing hidden gymnastics of the non-mind, in a way, trying to plan their fate, trying to escape from reality. And it frightens me a great deal, because reason is very fragile.”
February 03, 2009, 3:43pm
that you’ll never be someone who is going to organize the world and transform it in a logical way; you’re never going to think in any kind of politically logical way, and you’re never going to really have any power.”
January 16, 2009, 9:33am
“The universe is a machine for creating gods.”
Henri Bergson
January 15, 2009, 2:45pm
“It’s funny, we were unreal people… and yet we were real.”
January 12, 2009, 7:14pm
