We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
If you want to write, keep cats.
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is.
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.
We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.
Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.
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