Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

– Voltaire

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

- Marshall McLuhan

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

- Alan Watts

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

- Marshall McLuhan

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

- Alan Watts

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

- Alfred Korzybski

The map is not the territory.

- Alfred Korzybski

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

- Lewis Thomas

It's the worry that makes us interesting. Unique. Yet worry is the one thing we'd like most to be rid of.

When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you’re life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.

That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

- Steve Jobs