Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. If our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves.

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.