The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.