Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men..

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality..

We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves..

I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it you're presumed to fall off, into ins….

Quality tends to fan out like waves..

Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people--what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the d….

Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is in an undeniably….

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good..

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything..

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

Between the subject and the object lies the value..

Rules of Order state that ... No minority has a right to block a majority from conducting the legal business of the organisation .... but No majority….

They just hate it when people make love. And then they'll go to a fistfight where somebody's really hurt and all covered with bloodand they'll just l….

It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which i….

Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in it….

99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just an arbitrary ….

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who real….

The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad sc….

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, d….

The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just….

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