"It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health."
"If you alone found out what the lie was, then you're probably right—it would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed."
"The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do."
"The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way."
"If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it."
"[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it."