If you believe yourself sufficiently hungry, you will eat your own thoughts

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism.

These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear... And when it is gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear is gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.