“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”
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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.