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Actors die so loud.  
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist ne...  
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to w...  
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in i...  
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.  
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not underst...  
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literat...  
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature,...  
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to...  
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human rac...  
I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rat...  
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.  
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon ...  
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they w...  
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.  
If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are e...  
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about...  
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ign...  
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, t...  
Instead of asking - "How much damage will the work in question bring a...  
Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.  
Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even wh...  
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.  
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of t...  
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.  
My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man,...  
Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus ri...  
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our d...  
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the w...  
No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cheris...  
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the...  
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, read...  
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is bec...  
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at ...  
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body...  
Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you...  
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... the other eight ar...  
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, d...  
The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne...  
The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.  
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to ...  
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over...  
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity eithe...  
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who wo...   Change
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of gra...  
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we...  
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense diff...  
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.  
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.  
The word "civilization" to my mind is coupled with death. When I use t...  
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It...  
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.  
Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terri...  
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his lif...  
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we sh...  
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories glean...  
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the po...  
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the...  
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experienc...  
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe t...  
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but...  
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is usele...  
Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizi...