To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

You have to stop to change direction.

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

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

Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.