Werner Erhard Quotes

At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.

To take a stand for the future is to bring forth a new opportunity, not one derived from the past, but an opportunity created from a future to which we give ourselves.

Inherent in human beings are possibilities which we now can't even entertain. Before the space launch, space travel to many of us was the stuff of fantasy, of science fiction. We know what it is to explore the limits of what we consider to be a human being, but if we were to transform our understanding of ourselves, if we were to transform what we knew a human being to be, new possibilities of expression would open. We could function in a more creative way. In a more humane way. In the past we were transformed by the thrust of evolution or by accidental forces. This time we should transform ourselves with a conscious, committed degree of self-awareness.

What I recognized is that you can't put it together. It's already together, and what you have to do is experience it being together.

The possibility to create the context in which people’s lives really matter is undoubtedly the most profound opportunity available to anyone, ever.

If you’re going to be a leader, you’re going to have to have a very loose relationship with this thing you call ‘I’ or ‘me’. Maybe that whole thing in me around which the universe revolves isn’t so central! Maybe life is not about the self but about self-transcendence.

You are part of every atom in the world, and every atom is part of you.

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

I have a lot of respect for L. Ron Hubbard and I consider him to be a genius and perhaps less acknowledged than he ought to be.

You are god in your own universe. There is no god unless it is self.

Something experienced is true; the same thing believed is a lie.

Man keeps looking for a truth to fit his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.

You can either have reasons or results.

You and I possess within ourselves, at every moment of our lives and under all circumstances, the power to transform the quality of our lives.

Miracles occur in direct proportion to our willingness to have them.