The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of that eternal something to which we attach the self that is about to be annihilated?

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.