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One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.

These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.

The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.

So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

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