Wisdom

When stupidity knocks at the door, it is stupidity that opens it.

Could an enemy really curse someone? Could the enemy affect reality by the deliberate mental intent of harming?

In order to understand what happened, we'll use words in the way that they exist: as drawers of distinction between ideas.

The ability to be emotive comes from within...It's innate'.

Hope is for people who can't see the Truth.

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

Evangelicals have squandered their cultural capital because they have tried to reclaim a standing in American culture that they never had. The American Founding was a mix of fragmented religious (and not-so-religious) voices.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!

Diplomacy is so weak and prosaic. Diplomacy must never become an end, itself. Facts are so much more important in science. Yet, I'm beginning to appreciate the value of a soft word and a smile. --Unassimilated pg 294.

People's perception is their reality. That is their truth.

The notion that writings created at a time when men huddled in superstitious terror from an eclipse can possibly be a credible representation of the Creator (whatever that word means to each person) is so absurd as to border on delusional.

Solitude is a time when you go into a determined period of making the best of your time.

We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

Humanism is not a pompous philosophy to be talked and debated about by a handful of intellectuals - it is the purest form of moral compass, which defines the civilized heart of thinking humanity.