Quotes – Page 3

In my experience, you never really know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it.

You must absolutely and forever relinquish the idea that you know who should live and who should die on this planet.

Is that good? Being like everybody? Isn't that the same as being nobody?

My conditioning tells me - Mother Culture tells me - that living in the hands of the gods has got to be a never-ending nightmare of terror and anxiety.

I don't think you can start wanting something till you know it exists.

Man can never have the wisdom the gods use to rule the world, and if he tries to preempt that wisdom, the result won't be enlightenment, it will be death.

The knowledge of good and evil is fundamentally the knowledge the rulers of the world must exercise, because every single thing they do is good for some but evil for others.

The danger is not that he would gain our knowledge but rather that he might imagine that he'd gained it.

None will ever be master of the knowledge of who shall live and who shall die.

Acceptance has nothing to do with it. You may as well talk about a man stepping off the edge off a cliff not accepting the effects of gravity.

If the will is there, the method will be found.

Every increase in food production to feed an increased population is answered by another increase in population. - This says nothing about where locally these increases occur.