There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

The Romans called the Christians atheists. Why? Well, the Christians had a god of sorts, but it wasn't a real god. They didn't believe in the divinity of apotheosized emperors or Olympian gods. They had a peculiar, different kind of god. So it was very easy to call people who believed in a different kind of god atheists. And that general sense that an atheist is anybody who doesn't believe exactly as I do prevails in our own time.