Woe Unto The Defeated, Whom History Treads

The Inner Defenses Are Unconscious. They Consist Of A Kind Of Magic Aura Which The Mind Builds Around Cherished Belief. Arguments Which Penetrate Into The Magic Aura Are Not Dealt With Rationally But By A Specific Type Of Pseudo-reasoning. Absurdities And Contradictions Are Made Acceptable By Specious Rationalizations.

The Real Achievement In Discoveries... Is Seeing An Analogy Where No One Saw One Before... The Essence Of Discovery Is That Unlikely Marriage Of Cabbages And Kings — Of Previously Unrelated Frames Of Reference Or Universes Of Discourse — Whose Union Will Solve The Previously Insoluble Problem.

Man Has An Irrepressible Tendency To Read Meaning Into The Buzzing Confusion Of Sights And Sounds Impinging On His Senses; And Where No Agreed Meaning Can Be Found, He Will Provide It Out Of His Own Imagination.

...the Cosmology Of A Given Age Is Not The Result Of Unilinear, "scientific" Development, But Rather The Most Striking, Imaginative Symbol Of Its Mentality- The Projection Of Its Conflicts, Prejudice And Specific Ways Of Double-think Onto The Graceful Sky.

We Cannot Unthink Unless We Are Insane.