There is only one true wealth in all the universe – living time.
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.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.