The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.

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.

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.

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

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.

Contentment is the foundation of true Happiness. The Happiness that comes from fulfilling desires can never be permanent.-RVM

Life must be live by faith rather than fear.

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.

Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais?

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

Once you have a very, very large budget, you actually look for expensive things to spend it on.

If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.