The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.

The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.