A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

There are evils, as someone has pointed out, that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever - money, for instance, or war.

Our media make crisis chatter out of news and fill our minds with anxious phantoms of the real thing - a summit in Helsinki, a treaty in Egypt, a constitutiona…

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.