Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.

In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English.

Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything.

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.