The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods.
There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.
Let the child see Mama and Daddy both at least once a day. Never quarrel or argue in front of a baby or a child-it destroys security.
Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.
Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits can vibrate anything but worry. Learn to write so, my son, and you can call yourself a writer.
All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.
There's only one remedy for crime — get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!
Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.
The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.
Communication is the universal solvent.
The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.
The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.
You can get a much better fee - I tell you as auditors quite frankly - it's much easier to get a great deal of money out of somebody who's on a down spiral into becoming MEST than it is to get money out of somebody who is going on an up spiral toward becoming theta.
In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.
True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.
Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.
Perhaps the single most important point for parents to follow is the importance of giving goals to a child. And the most important goal is that of growing up to be an adult.
The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game.
Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.
Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life.
A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government, land and natural resources, in about that order of importance.
The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.
Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it.
Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit.
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