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Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather: all pervasive and virtually inescapable.

In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.

Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.