Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.