Never ask people about your work.

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

To achieve, you need thought

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes, his whims - as his consciousness is surrendered to theirs. He wants to deal with men by means of faith and force - he finds no satisfaction in their consent if he must earn it by means of facts and reason.

The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.