Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.
The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.
Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.
Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.
Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.
The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.
Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!
Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.
To some its Hump Day. To us, it's Wednesday's getting its ass kicked and Thursday just asked Friday to switch places.
Most guitar players get a name because the band that they're in has become popular. That doesn't mean that they're particularly good, whereas conversely, you've got people like Albert Lee, an incredible player, one of my favourites who's not in a famous band, so he doesn't get into the popularity polls. I have to laugh at some of the people that do get into the popularity polls - some of them are so bad, but they're in a band that's at the top of the hit parade. I think people mix that up.