It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .

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

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.