Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

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

The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.

That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.