For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

When the individual feels, the community reels.

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.

Nothing short of everything will really do.

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