Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.

The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them.

If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.

For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal."

What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself

By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!