EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.