which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.

A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

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

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.