Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is aware of? First of all it requires the capacity to be puzzled. Children still have the capacity to be puzzled.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.