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

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.

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.

Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all.

Similar to a butterfly, I've gone through a metamorphosis, been released from my dark cocoon, embraced my wings, and soared!

The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding.

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

Health foods make promises that only the Second Coming could fulfill.

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.

I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.

Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.