Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers

In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

...the sole test of music is its power to exalt the soul.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

It is not truth but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.

I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because its part of my journey.

It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?