Any Road Followed Precisely To Its End

If All Those Around You Believe Some Particular Thing, You Will Soon Be Tempted To Share In That Belief.

These Are Illusions Of Popular History Which Successful Religion Must Promote: Evil Men Never Prosper; Only The Brave Deserve The Fair; Honesty Is The Best Policy; Actions Speak Louder Than Words; Virtue Always Triumpths; A Good Deed Is Its Own Rewards; Any Bad Human Can Be Reformed; Religious Talismans Protect One From Demon Possession; Only Females Understand The Ancient Mysteries; The Rich Are Doomed To Unhappiness

Dangers Lurk In All Systems. Systems Incorporate The Unexamined Beliefs Of Their Creators. Adopt A System, Accept Its Beliefs, And You Help Strengthen The Resistance To Change

Memory Never Recaptures Reality. Memory Reconstructs. All Reconstructions Change The Original, Becoming External Frames Of Reference That Inevitably Fall Short.

Absolute Prediction Is Completion . . . Is Death!