America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. ...The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. I...t has potency which the world does not yet know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
(Non! Rien de rien.... Non, je ne regrette rien! Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait, Ni le mal. Tout ça m'est bien égal!) No, I regret no...thing.... Neither the good nor the bad, It's all the same for me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession. It comes only by the ...grace of God. It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker. You must be born into the family of the Walkers. Ambulator nascitur, non fit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging ...toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What, then, is the basic difference between today's computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to see ...but not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern--a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »