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

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

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

Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.