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

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

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.

All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

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