When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

"It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is important not only for sanity and peace of mind, but also for the most "practical" reasons of economics, politics, and technology.. This is not to say only that things exist in relation to one another, but that what we call "things" are no more than glimpses of a unified process. Certainly, this process has distinct features which catch our attention, but we must remember that distinction is not separation."