The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

No practice exists in isolation.