Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to yourself.

Retribution is really a stone age concept.

At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas.

The self is not a thing, but a process.

Subjectivity means to catch yourself in the act.

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.

Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.

Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.

I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we will never be able to leave it experientially on a permanent basis.

Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen.

Then don't you dare tell me my dreams are insane! Because my dreams are what I live for!

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten.

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy

Don't abandon what makes you who you are. Don't give up hope.

I have not in this lifetime yet met one person who earnestly seeks enlightenment in the West. Not one person.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

In Michigan recently a man won a lawsuit for substantial damages because, he claimed, a rear-end collision in his car had made him a homosexual.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.