The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has degenerated in its realization to th….

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response..

We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some training is "against human nature..

All men are creative but few are artists..

There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord with other p….

My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting if it is satisfactory, and satisfa….

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by thos….

For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the s….

The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish "belonging," although this kind of spe….

To consider powerful souls as if they were a useful public resource is quite foreign to our customs. In a small sense it is undemocratic, for it assu….

It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to figh….

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect..

When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all….

A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution t….

A well-known magazine asks a man how they should refer to him, as Psychologist X, as Author X? He suggests man of letters, for that is what he is, in….

When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There….

What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- "..

The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author..

We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but won't, can't, o….

Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety..

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men..