Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far? — how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern.

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.