The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!

History is just new people making old mistakes.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

The world is no nursery.