“What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been hitherto in the political order? Nothing. What does it desire to be? Something.”

“The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary.”

“-- What, then, does one experience of the You?-- Nothing at all. For one does not experience it.-- What, then, does one know of the You?-- Only everything. For one no longer knows particulars.”

“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.”

“LADY BRACKNELLAlgernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?”

“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.”