“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”

“There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.”

“Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt i...”

“As a rule what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.”

“I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.”

“The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.Carl JungSwiss psychologi...”

“Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.”

“Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.”

“A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptiv...”

“Consciousness of unconsciousness”

“We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.”

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”