Saul Quotes

We need total health more than medically approved health. Our wellness should not be limited to our doctor's experience, but enhanced by our own experience.

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

Live or die but don't poison everything.

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

Some people are immune to good advice.

Conscience gets expensive, doesn't it?

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

I hear the weed is really strong in California.

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.

...chaos doesn't run the whole show.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.

A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.

"What do women want?" "They eat green salad and drink human blood."

(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles.

No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.

Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.

Never do for someone what they can do for themselves.

Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

Work? It’s just serious play.

The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.

There is simply too much to think about.

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.