The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it

It is good to have an end to journey towards but it is the journey that matters in the end

It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters, in the end

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep