No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
The Christ symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.
We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.