A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.

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

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.