The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.

But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.

Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection. Imperfection and blazing contradictions-between mixed good and evil, altruism and selfishness, cooperativeness and combativeness, optimism and fatalism, affirmation and negation.