After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

I do not think that you can try and systematize education for the whole world. I would try experiments in small communities and in schools to see how they work out, instead of taking the children of an entire nation and trying to bring them up on the same system.

It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.

As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on its own intrinsic value and not on the authority of my attainment, nor on the authority of others.

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.