It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

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.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.