Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Words are good servants but bad masters.
Hinduism is the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.
The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun – bang it goes.
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.
Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.
The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.