Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

Information consists of differences that make a difference.

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.