Choiceless awareness – at every moment and in all the circumstances of life – is the only effective meditation.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

An impersonal generation will take the place of Nature’s hideous system. In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. The family system will disappear;...

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

God isn’t the son of Memory; He’s the son of Immediate Experience. You can’t worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it’s...

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with “I,” “me,” “mine,” that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only...

He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either pointless or a practical joke. Yes, chosen. For it had been an act of the will. If...

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time....

One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for...

In a sane world I should be a great man; as things are, in this curious establishment, I am nothing at all; to all intents and purposes I don’t exist. I am just a Vox...

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Home, home – a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease...

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...

For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes ’till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the...

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Pain was a fascinating horror

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

I know LSD; I don’t need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.