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Dianetics is an adventure. It is an exploration into Terra Incognita, the human mind, that vast and hitherto unknown realm half an inch back of
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It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.
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The second that you make a man truly free, he becomes truly good. And it is only that individual who has lost his belief in himself and his own pride of goodness and his own pride of being and his own honor who is dangerous.
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Scientology 1970 is being planned on a religious organization basis throughout the world. This will not upset in any way the usual activities of any organization. It is entirely a matter for accountants and solicitors.
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Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.
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Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.
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The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
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All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.
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All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.
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All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!
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All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.
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What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.
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Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.
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Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of a close-knit group of initiates. They are the soul food of all people.
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You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.
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Change no man’s religion, change no man’s politics, interrupt the sovereignty of no nation. Instead, teach Man to use what he has and what he knows to the factual creation, within any political reference, of a civilization on Earth for the first time.
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What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things.
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The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in
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Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.
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Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that?
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You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.
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When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.
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Communication is the root of marital success from which a strong union can grow, and noncommunicatio n is the rock on which the ship will bash out her keel.
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I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.