We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order.

Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.