"The rebel function is necessary as the life-blood of culture, as the very roots of civilization."

"The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real."

"In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours."

"The man-moulders of the new age will be armed with the powers of an omnicompetent state and an irresistible scientific technique."

"What is television ? What kinds of conversations does it permit ? What are the intellectual tendencies it encourages ?"

"We are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it."

"The capacity for discerning the essential truth, in fact, is as rare among men as it is common among crows, bullfrogs and mackerel."

"In Greek mythology, Sleep and Death, Hypnos and Thanatos, are twin brothers."

"The bigger the crowd the more negligible the individual becomes."

"There are many who believe that humans are sheep; there are others who believe that humans are wolves."

"The truly great writers are those who have a feel for the subterranean. .. The great novelists are the true psychologists."

"We have reached a point in history where man has become his own most dangerous enemy."

"Thus, little by little, the Bachelor built his own prison. He suffered from it. He felt he was entirely imprisoned within himself..."

"AN OLD MAN named Chunglang, which means ‘Master Rock’, owned a small farm in the mountains."

"There was once a wild goose. In the autumn, about the time for migration, it became aware of some tame geese."

"Zarathustra has gone a long way on the path of solitude. He has attended the school of suffering."

“What ought we to do ?” you ask me. You ask me time and time again, and yourselves as well. “Doing” — action — is so important to you..."

"This pre-established harmony between the theory of Schopenhauer and my own natural man causes me pleasure mingled with terror."

"Nietzsche, therefore, never set up house with knowledge so as to economise and preserve; he built no spiritual home over his head."

"The achievement of this Orphic poetry is to create the peace, trust, and sensitivity in which man can listen to this music of nature..."

"Once upon a time an artist who had painted a small and very beautiful picture placed it so that he could see it in the mirror..."

"Of that band of martyrs, .. the one whose tragedy most closely approaches Rimbaud's is Van Gogh."

"In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child."

"A void surrounded him, an awe-inspiring silence; no hermit or anchorite in the desert was ever more abandoned."