For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

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

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.