A rush of wind comes furiously now, down from the mountaintop. 'The ancient Greeks,' I say, 'who were the inventors of classical reason, knew better than to use it exclusively to foretell the future. They listened to the wind and predicted the future from that. That sounds insane now. But why should the inventors of reason sound insane?'

What's happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creat…

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it you're presumed to fall off, into insanity. And…

For knowledge of the first principles, like space, time, motion, number, is as solid as any derived through reason, and it is on such knowledge, coming from th…

Emotion has taught mankind to reason.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.