"Crowds of silent voices whisper in our ears, transforming the nature of what we see and hear. Some are those of child…"

"Through our sentences and paragraphs long-gone ghosts still have their say within the collective mind."

"Almost every reality you "know" at any given second is a mere ghost held in memory."

"In a strange way, Marcion understood the situation better than the more conventional followers of the church, for Luc…"

"From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to pull apart. From our dev…"

"We must build a picture of the human soul that works. ...a recognition that the enemy is within us and that Nature ha…"

"Men and animals do not merely struggle to maintain their individual existence; they are members of larger social grou…"

"The greatest human evils are not those that individuals perform in private, the tiny transgressions against some arbi…"

"In our preoccupations with sex, our submission to gods and leaders, our sometimes suicidal commitment to ideas, relig…"

"Remember a networked learning machine's most basic rule: strengthen the connections to those who succeed, weaken them…"