A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status.

What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ".

An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that afterward one cannot be sure that one was somewhere or had newly experienced anything. If you aren't much in the world, how do you know you are "out of this world"?

The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish "belonging," although this kind of speech and thought is precisely calculated to avoid contact and so makes belonging impossible.

The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions.