Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.

Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.