... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has been weakened everywhere in the world, a special responsibility lies upon the writer.

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

The less you speak, the more you will hear.

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges. Legally your researchers are free, but they are conditioned by the fashion of the day.

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.