The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.

I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much.