The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive--it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be mutual.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

We must love one another or die

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.