The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body.

The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words.

You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.

Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through one’s own eyes-which means: the capacity to perform a rational identification- which means: the capacity to see, to connect and to make what had not been seen, connected and made before.

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

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