Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

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.

Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.