"If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow."
- John Gray
"The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it."
"Over the past two hundred years philosophy has shaken off Christian faith. It has not given up Christianity's cardinal error -the belief that humans are radically different from all other animals."
"The Buddha promised release from something we all understand: suffering. By contrast, no one can say what was the original sin, and no one understands how the suffering of Christ can redeem it."
"The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again."
"I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you'd fondly stray, over the hills and far away."
"What you feel, you can heal."
"Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader."
"The Buddhist ideal of awakening implies that we can sever our links with our evolutionary past. We can raise ourselves from the sleep in which other animals pass their lives. Our illusions dissolved, ..."
"Those who ignore the destructive potential of new technologies can do so only because they ignore history . Pogroms are as old as Christendom , but without railways, the telegraph and poison gas there..."