My beliefs are skewed from years of seeing things in a different light...what you think I might believe is just a surface thought of what you can actually achieve...

If we swallow knowledge complete with these automatic connections we shall remain automatically hooked to the Machine. On the other hand, if we take in knowledge, including that which is opposed to the Machine in one or another specific sphere, not wishing to be prejudiced but without a truly reasoned mental foundation, the result will be confusion. The individual's task is to construct this mental foundation, and I am trying to help by easing and shortening what might otherwise be a longer and more difficult process.

"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.