Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

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

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.

The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.