In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

The present is never a happy state to any being

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.