“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”

Anything that can be said can be said clearly.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

You can’t think decently if you’re not willing to hurt yourself.

Understand or die.

Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself.

Language disguises thought.

Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world.

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence.

Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness.

When we can’t think for ourselves, we can always quote.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

It’s not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

At the core of all well-founded beliefs lies belief that is unfounded.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

Being famous is like a dream come true but it’s really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don’t want to lose being a kid.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able to stand up to the inevitable abuse of power by whoever runs the state apparatus, the capitalists, the communists, the socialists, the Gandhians, whoever.

Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code – a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren’t any right people.

At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It’s difficult to explain.

At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It’s difficult to explain.

At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It’s difficult to explain.