The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you’ll see that they’re all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.
Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons.
Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.
We have been told over and over that “you can’t change human nature”, but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become “human nature” if society defines it as such.
No wife, no horse, no mustache.
If it’s true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
It’s not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don’t understand it until it makes you weep.
The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
Communication is only possible between equals.
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don’t already believe it.
Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there’d be no more wars.
There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.
Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
If you want to be happy, practise it every day.
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
The Right’s view of government and the Left’s view of big business are both correct.
It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
You can “prove” anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning.
Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.