In The Modern World, We Americans Are

The Aim Is Not To Give Human Beings Real Goals That Warrant Belief, And Tasks To Share In, But To Re-establish "belonging," Although This Kind Of Speech And Thought Is Precisely Calculated To Avoid Contact And So Makes Belonging Impossible.

It Is By Losing Himself In The Objective, In Inquiry, Creation, And Craft, That A Man Becomes Something.

We Do Not Need To Be Able To Say What "human Nature" Is In Order To Be Able To Say That Some Training Is "against Human Nature.

An Awkward Consequence Of Heightening Experience When One Is Inexperienced, Of Self-transcendence When One Has Not Much World To Lose, Is That Afterward One Cannot Be Sure That One Was Somewhere Or Had Newly Experienced Anything. If You Aren't Much In The World, How Do You Know You Are "out Of This World"?

There Is Such A Thing As Food And Such A Thing As Poison. But The Damage Done By Those Who Pass Off Poison As Food Is Far Less Than That Done By Those Who Generation After Generation Convince People That Food Is Poison.