Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.