If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

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.

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.