And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.