We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.
What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.