We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent solution. People in a hurry will imitate more readily than people at leisure. Hustling thus tends to produce uniformity. And in the deliberate fusing of individuals into a compact group, incessant action will play a considerable role.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music.

The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.