As unrefined and basic as an animal's emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable. |
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. |
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. |
Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars. |
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. |
I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. |
Ideas are mallable and unstable; they not only can be misused, they invite misuse---and the better the idea the more volatile it is. That's because only the better ideas turn into dogma, and it is by this process whereby a fresh, stimulating, humanly helpful idea is changed into robot dogma that is deadly. The problem starts at the secondary level, not with the originator or developer of the idea, but with the people who are attracted to it, until the last nail breaks, and who invariably lack the overview, flexibility, imagination, and, most importantly, sense of humor to maintain it in the spirit in which it was hatched. Ideas are made by masters, dogmas by disciples, and the Buddha is always killed on the road. |
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. |
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. |
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. |
It is easier to play around with a man's wife than with his cliches. |
It is never too late to have a happy childhood |
It is never too late to have a happy childhood |
It's been a positive thing for us. I think it's excellent. |
Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society or you can have a stable society. You can't have both. Take your choice. As for me, I'll choose a free, organic society over a rigid, artificial society any day. |