"A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove."
Consistent Thinker
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The River of Life
"If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part."
Measure of Health
"It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Prejudices
"From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values."
Process
"Truth is more in the process than in the result."
Authority
"All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question...
Your Belief in God
"Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life."
The Book of Yourself
"Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?"
Insoluble Problems
"Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems."
What is True and False?
"You are Christians; find out what is true and false in Christianity - and you will then find out what is true. Find out what is true and false in your environment with all its oppressions and cruelties, and then you will find out what is true. Why do you want...