Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

You will become tired, Siddhartha." "I will become tired." "You will fall asleep, Siddhartha." "I will not fall asleep." "You will die, Siddhartha." "I will die.

People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.

The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.