“Science has promised us truth...it has never promised us either peace or happiness.”—Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A…

“Trusting thus opens one up to harm, for it gives rise to selective interpretation, which means that one can be fooled,…

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether or not life is worth living…

“First, capitalism is a pure religious cult, perhaps the most extreme there ever was.”—Walter Benjamin, “Capitalism As…

“Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished. Maybe happen is never once but like ripples maybe on water after the…

“For the observation that prison fails to eliminate crime, one should perhaps substitute the hypothesis that prison has…

“Danger and habit: Both create environments in which the climate of betrayal is so pervasive that individual acts of…

“If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods.”—Baron d’Holbach

“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent—people who are glad…

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is…

so much depends
upon

“When knowledgeable journalists tell us that ‘events, not men, shape the big decisions,’ they are echoing the theory of…

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone
enough
to truly consecrate the hour.
I am much too small in this world,…

Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and…

What we look for both in public officials and in our friends is character. Not a set of discrete, heroic, ethically…

What means does civilization employ in order to inhibit the aggressiveness which opposes it , to make it harmless, to…

Cypher: You know, I know this steak doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my…

In an increasing urban and technological society, the natural processes of human existence have acquired a moral status…

“‘I declare it’s marked out just like a large chessboard!’ Alice said at last. ‘There ought to be some men moving about…

“We necessarily express ourselves by means of words and we usually think in terms of space. That is to say, language…