Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.