Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.

By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch as we are created in the image of God.

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.

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.