Imagine a world full of brains, and far more memes than can possibly find homes. Which memes are more likely to find a safe home and get passed on again?

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.

Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.

One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.

Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.

For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.

Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

While JFK had made the sale on a political level, he had not yet completed it on an emotional one.

A witty woman is a treasure

You can’t win without being patient. You know why? Success comes when you value time by using it profitably. It comes over time

We have our own personal demons to deal with.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

No one gets a break from their reality.

Keep alive the fact that a mystery has come into existence and that a physical being serves as a house for this mystery.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.