Your "conscious life" is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons. - Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Whether a country is to be called 'civilised' or not, depends not on how affluent the upper 10 per cent are, but how well they treat the lower 10 per cent.

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only a human can reach for the stars or even know what that means.

Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.