Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.