Author of quotes: Natsuhiko Kyogoku

Everyone has a nervous system. When she needs treatment, you go to a neurologist. This is no different, say, from the treatment of hemorrhoids. The nerves are connected to the brain, and the brain is just an extension of the nervous system. And although in recent years we have not made much progress in studying it, very soon doctors will learn to treat it too - just like hemorrhoids.

The probability that you and the whole world around you is just a hallucination inhabited by ghosts, and the probability that it is all real, are absolutely equal.

The soul is the only part of a person that is not subject to science.

Any book is interesting - and not only when it is new. Even those books that you have already read can be very exciting. It just takes a little more effort and time to extract something interesting from a book you've already read once, that's all.

…the supernatural is as real as the human mind allows it to be…