“.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them”

“Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, that we are composed only of highways of flui...”

“There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.”

“As Gazzaniga put it, "these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning of events. It is constantly looking for order and...”

“You gleefully say, I just thought of something!, when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment of genius struck. When an idea is served up from behind the scenes, ...”

“If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: youre the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.”

“"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”

“...the mind that is collectively orientated is quite incapable of thinking and feeling in any other way than by projection.”

“Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided.”

“There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases, which completely ignores human strife, fills the race o...”

“Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it comes from an inflammation of my imagination doesn't prevent it being reality itself...”

“I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.”

“What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? Oh, poems, no less! Poems, everybody!”