The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life – that remains the main objective…to increase our divine attributes to have moral life.

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.