"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

"In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead ; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead . In the nineteenth century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the twentieth century it means schizoid self-alienation. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots."

"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent."

"The harmony of the universe dictates that the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"It is a essential truth that a life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A steadfast commander remains calm when the storm rages fiercest. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education."