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

The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountains which sustain life, not the top.

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.