[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.