“Life if curious when reduced to its essentials”

“It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.”

“American life is essentially oriented to economics, and every aspect of Life is simply referred for its justification thereto.”

“The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.”

“If there can be agreement that certain rights are essential to reduce the chances of perfect injustice, that constitutes the beginning of a solid theory of rights.”

“Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.”

“Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.”

“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”

“Ashtadhyayi distinguishes between usage in the spoken language and usage that is proper to the language of the sacred texts. The Ashtadhyayi is generative as well as descriptive. With its complex use of metarules, transformations, and recursions, the grammar in Ashtadhyayi has been likened to the Turing machine, an idealized mathematical model that reduces the logical structure of any computing device to its essentials.”

“Nobody can find fault with legitimate ambition, but when the wealth of the spiritual and intellectual life is reduced to a formula for overcoming sales resistance, we protest.”