The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

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.

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.