Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture.

Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of em….

The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this tem….

True creativity often starts where language ends..

The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort of homely r….

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the….

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience..

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky..

When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Far….

In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes and N….

If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways..

To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras..

The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seeme….

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate int….

If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out..

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event..

Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, labor….

Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed not to have lost their flexibility,….

the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness..

If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the tra….

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some buil….