You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.

What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.

We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same.

Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.