Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.
Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They’re a kind of job insurance.
There is only one true wealth in all the universe – living time.
Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.
Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.
Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.
You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.
Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.
To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.
Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises – no matter the mood! Mood’s a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It’s not for fighting.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Face your fears or they will climb over your back.