43 Quotes by Luke Rhinehart

Men must attempt to develop in themselves and their children liberation from the sense of self. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways.

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because Paramount is a huge studio. The Dice Man is an anti-establishment cult novel and you don’t normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.

As your Zen says, go with the flow, even if the flow is meaningless.

You’re all murdering life... You’re all trying to change yourselves, all trying to change what is, and thus you’re never actually living what is. You’re killing who you are every day of your lives by not being who you are... where you are.

Indecisive? Uncertain? Worried? Let the rolling ivory tumble your burdens away. $2.50 per pair.

Love is one of society’s many socially accepted forms of madness.

All belief is the least reliable form of knowing... Where there is a natural knowing of God, there is not need for belief. The highest form of certainty is something you know so thoroughly and so naturally that it’s impossible to put into words.