The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.

Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.

One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.

Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.

Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to find the course of human events to a final end. It is not reason that has promised to eliminate risk in human undertakings it is the emotional needs of men.