The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!
The best way to know any future is to cause one.
See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see
We've got some new ways to make slaves here.
There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.
If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.
The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
Dianetics is an adventure. It is an exploration into Terra Incognita, the human mind, that vast and hitherto unknown realm half an inch back of our foreheads.
A workman is not just a workman. A laborer is not just a laborer. An office worker is not just an office worker. They are living, breathing, important pillars on which the entire structure of our civilization is erected. They are not cogs in a mighty machine. They are the machine itself.
I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.
Are you making life or is life making you?
The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every battle you are ever engaged in, whether it is in terms of personal conversation, public debate, or a court of law. NEVER BE INTERESTED IN CHARGES. DO, yourself, much MORE CHARGING, and you will WIN.
Think your own way through things, accept what is true for you, discard the rest.
No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.
Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.
What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.
To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.
I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days. These shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they are shadows and that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is.
I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.
Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.
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