When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

The latter part of a wise person’s life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Suggestibility – a form of misattribution where ideas suggested by a questioner are mistaken for memory.

Telescoping effect – the effect that recent events appear to have occurred more remotely and remote events appear to have occurred more recently.

False memory – confusion of imagination with memory, or the confusion of true memories with false memories.

Hindsight bias – filtering memory of past events through present knowledge, so that those events look more predictable than they actually were; also known as the "I-knew-it-all-along effect."