“The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.”
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Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
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.