The proper study of mankind is books.

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.