Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness.

Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.