To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.