To Understand Is To Perceive Patterns.

Life May Be Seen Through Many Windows, None Of Them Necessarily Clear Or Opaque, Less Or More Distorting Than Any Of The Others.

True Knowledge Is Knowledge Of Why Things Are As They Are, And Not Merely What They Are.

The Very Desire For Guarantees That Our Values Are Eternal And Secure In Some Objective Heaven Is Perhaps Only A Craving For The Certainties Of Childhood Or The Absolute Values Of Our Primitive Past.

All Central Beliefs On Human Matters Spring From A Personal Predicament.

Utopias Have Their Value -- Nothing So Wonderfully Expands The Imaginative Horizons Of Human Potentialities -- But As Guides To Conduct They Can Prove Literally Fatal.