In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two. In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.