It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know nothing of the ultimate orientation or of the outlet toward which we travel, and the stream sweeps us to a formula of life from which there is no returning. Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.

One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges, and these will give rise to new problems, which will require ever new solutions. Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.

Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.