“[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence of faith is the knowledge that all flows and that everything must change. The growing man is Man Alive, and his "philosophy" must grow, must flow, with him. . . . the man too fixed today, unfixed tomorrow - and his body of beliefs is nothing but a series of fixations.”
“Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”
“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”
“Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.”
“Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.”
“Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.”