Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

A problem well-put is half-solved.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.