There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

Every adversity is the fuel for the soul. The greatest self-realization occurs during the greatest adversity.

It is not the jumps you made in your life but mostly the jumps you haven’t made are the real source of regrets in your life!

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....

Our once simple, unified meaning of life is being shattered into many, sometimes competing, concepts.

I first met my wife in the tunnel of love. She was digging it at the time.

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.

I learned very soon to get along by myself.

Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.

There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.

I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.