And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.