The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you see with it.

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.

Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.

The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place

Water is life is love is life is water.

Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president.

There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness

Comedy comes from confusion.

What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.