- “The first step in acquiring consciousness is the realization that we are not conscious.”
- “When you become identified you cannot observe.”
- “A man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something.”
- “There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.”
- “I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another”
- “A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.”
- “The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.”
- “Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he is a machine, and having fully realized this, he may find the ways to cease to be a machine.
- First of all, what man must know is that he is not one; he is many. He has not one permanent and unchangeable “I” or Ego. He is always different. One moment he is one, another moment he is another, the third moment he is a third, and so on, almost without end.”
- “There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.”
- “We speak only about consciousness and mechanicalness. If a role is mechanical, we must observe it and not identify with it. The most difficult thing is to act yourself consciously.”
- “The aim is to reach higher states of consciousness and to be able to work with higher centres.”
- “If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself.”
- “Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the essential stimulus for development. But you want to judge everything by your own standards. You have reached a comparatively high level and so you see what you fight against as evil. Just think of the others, those who are at an earlier stage of development. Do not bar them from the path toward progress and evolution.”
- “In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe; but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently, the biggest crimes actually escape being called crimes.”
- “Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology-for that applies only to a developed man-but mechanics. Man is not only a machine but a machine which works very much below the standard it would be capable of maintaining if it were working properly.”
- “I have become so accustomed to think “scientifically” that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering of life. I feel like a man condemned to death, whose companions have been hanged and who has already become reconciled to the thought that the same fate awaits him.”
- “When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.”
- “It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.”
- “There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps it is all nothing but a dream.”
- “In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.”
- “I felt that on a basis of a “search for the miraculous” it would be possible to unite together a very large number of people who were no longer able to swallow the customary forms of lying and living in lying.”
- “When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.”
- “It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.”
- “Identification is a very difficult thing to describe, because no definitions are possible. Such as we are we are never free from identifying. If we believe that we do not identify with something, we are identified with the idea that we are not identified.”
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