The more you know, the more you see

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption ... For myself, as no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneous liberation from a certain political and economic system, and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.