Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

We’re all the harshest judges of ourselves.

Our response has been, ‘Well, let’s then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.’ That hasn’t happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

What is the truth?’ he asked. ‘We place faith in ourselves,’ replied Altaïr (…) ‘We see the world as it really is, and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.’‘What is the...

I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We’ve kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don’t need. I’m anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of...

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that’s just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don’t...

Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn’t have one. In fact, we weren’t very stable ourselves.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.

I don’t think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.