You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need

We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.

The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear