Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.

In the days of the frost seek an minor sun.

After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past.

Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is only the everlasting present of a single generation, its trails in the forest, its hidden pathways in the the air and in the sea. There is nothing in the Universe more alone than Man. He has entered into the strange world of history.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.