Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Familiarity can blind too.
Science values static patterns.
There's no such thing as morality.
The more you look, the more you see.
Quality tends to fan out like waves.
The pencil is mightier than the pen.
Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.
Good is a noun rather than an adjective.
A thing that has no value does not exist.
The more you read, the more you calm down.
Data without generalization is just gossip.
It's better not to see than to see wrongly.
If you run from technology, it will chase you.
If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.
Between the subject and the object lies the value.
For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.
Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.
I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
That which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos.
The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.
I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else.
Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.
Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.
There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.
The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.
Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.
The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.
An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.
One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?
I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles
From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.
