Every man's memory is his private literature.
Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.
The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.
How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!
In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual....Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.
Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.
One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
Can you say something about nothing?
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge
Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.
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