Ken Wilber

What's my philosophy? In a word, integral.

The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.

We must forgive each other our arising for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always been not to do no harm but as little as possible and not to love one another but as much as you can.

I think I was a born scientist.

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.

Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

I don't have to agree with everything you say, but I should attempt at least to understand it, for the opposite of mutual understanding is, quite simply, war.