Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion.
I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.
I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
Unfortunately, it does take pain to wake us up sometimes.
Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems.
Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.
It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.