Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and dedicating their energies and substance to its advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and meaning.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.