The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.

Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.

The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you don't start with psychiatrists. If you don't like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do with either cops or psychiatrists is stay out of their way. You leave them 'till last.