50 quotes
American writer (1920–1986)
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.”
"One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim."
on Wisdom
"motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches."
on Leadership
"Fear is the mind-killer."
on Fear
"the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead"
on Death
"The man without emotions is the one to fear."
"Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new."
"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."
on Philosophy
"There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?"
on Perception
"You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after."
"Face your fears or they will climb over your back."
"This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery."
"There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time."
on Time
"What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?"
on Childhood
"You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening."
on Identity
"What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance."
"And the question of Wester religion,” Flattery said, “is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?"
"If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you."
"The hunter does not seek dead game."
"There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story."
on Life
"Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?"
on Religion
