Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.

Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.