One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.