The mind can be thought of as containing reels and reels of motion picture film about our past experiences. These images are superimposed not only on….

The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties b….

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct..

Everything is dead while it lives..

Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone..

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience..

I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say..

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them..

That’s what you do for family. Anything..

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I lear….

The old Lena is dead..

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print..

That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha..

What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about..

Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us..

Music gave me something to do in my life..

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?.

Eat right and you can’t go wrong..

I don't like overt traditionalism..

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro..

An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined ….