Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

I think there is such a thing as a bad seed that comes to flower in certain people. The danger with that theory is that we begin to look for those "troublemakers" early on and try to weed them out. That's very dangerous, because it could work against kids who are just routine troublemakers.

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.