Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.

The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

Politeness is organized indifference.

The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.