Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe...

Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he is fighting to capture. Reasonable - that is, human - men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life.