I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we will never be able to leave it experientially on a permanent basis.

Retribution is really a stone age concept.

At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas.

The self is not a thing, but a process.

Subjectivity means to catch yourself in the act.

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.

Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.

Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.

Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all.

I had the endless day, months and months of endless days, and yet my return date bounded this sense of boundlessness, kept it from becoming threatening.

.. I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you -not only because we're bonded, but because the love I have for you." ~ Eric Northman in Dead in The Family.

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.

Kill them all and let God sort them out.

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Anger makes us all stupid.

He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.