One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.

The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.