Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.