We human beings are what we have been for millions of years-colossally greedy, envious, aggressive, jealous, anxious and despairing, with occasional flashes of joy and affection. We are a strange mixture of hate, fear and gentleness; we are both violence and peace.

I think there is a difference between the human being and the individual. The individual is a local entity, living in a particular country, belonging to a part…

There has been outward progress from the bullock cart to the jet plane but psychologically the individual has not changed at all, and the structure of society …

That is the first thing to learn-not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or real…

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with so…