“The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.”

“The ideal universe is a universe so ordered or natured as to allow its inhabitants to understand and dominate it sufficient to satisfy their desires, and inhabited by beings with desires so poised and assorted that there is not only not mutual inhibition of desires, but such a dovetailing and intertwining of the consciousnesses that there is mutual aid in the satisfaction of desire—a universe responsive to the whims of its inhabitants, and inhabited by beings socially harmonious and helpful.”

“The whole damn universe has to be taken apart, brick by brick, and reconstructed.”

“The task of a theory of class is to identify the existing conditions for potential collective struggle and express them as a political proposition.”

“To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.”

“If we believe that the task of physics is the discovery of a timeless mathematical equation that captures every aspect of the universe, then we believe that the truth about the universe lies outside the universe.”

“Our task is terrible, total, universal, and merciless destruction.”

“If you seek to understand the whole universe, you will understand nothing at all. If you seek to understand yourself, you will understand to whole universe.”

“Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.”

“You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.”