It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.