A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

I’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.

No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.

Show me someone without problems and I will show you someone who is dead.

I could impart excitement, but not urgency. – Francis Chen

It’s good to want God to speak to you, but smarter to let God speak through you, because when God speaks through you, more than one can hear.

Sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy.

Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go.

Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost.

I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.