We talk about equality, about happiness, about freedom - and about the spiritual values of religion, and about God - and in our daily life, we act on principles which are different, and partly contradictory.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention.

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

One cannot fall in love, really; one has to be in love.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.