For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's.

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time