In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

Rape culture is a concept of unknown origin and of uncertain definition

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts that reciprocally imply each other. Fichte thinks they are the same thought.

Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated as having. It's certainly true of Shakespeare.

I am fascinated with times past.

Actually, I've been working on a plan. During the exam, I'll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out.

I will pursue my passion of cooking every day until my hands fall off and I lose all sense of smell and taste.

[Matt] Lindland looks just like 'Woogie' from 'There's Something About Mary', how am I possibly supposed to take this guy seriously?

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.