It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.