Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one’s self from one’s surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.
We always condemn most in others that which we most fear in ourselves.
It’s so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
If you don’t generalize you don’t philosophize.
Science values static patterns.
A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.
Cliches and stereotypes such as “beatnik” or “hippie” have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.
I really don’t mind dying because I figure I haven’t wasted this life.
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.
That’s the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn’t get his ideas from other people all around him.
What I am is a heretic who’s recanted, and thereby in everyone’s eyes saved his soul. Everyone’s eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.
There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.
Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
The solutions all are simple – after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.