Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

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.

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.

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