You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.

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.

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.

It's funny how the people who know the least about you, always have the most to say.

A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together.

You cannot buy your health; you must earn it through healthy living.

I would rather stay positive and get 50 percent good results, than stay negative and get 100 percent bad results!

Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.]

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity.

I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.