Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition Volume 2

Love and respect for others and for self are codeterminate.

The mind cannot look into itself anymore than an eye can look into itself. Both can do no more than reflect on reflection.

The test of the justice, morality, and worth of any society is how it treats those who are dependent due to youth, old age, physical or mental disability, and economic deprivation.

Order is not discipline imposed from without, but spontaneous harmony arising from within.

The new and novel should be viewed with suspicion, for it is improbable that one generation can be wiser than all ancestors combined.

It is more important to open our arms to let something old go than to open them to embrace something new.

societal organization can long be held together by force alone.

The universe is held together by attraction, not by force. Would that societies were the same.

When a rule is broken, the first impulse of rule makers is to make another. The better remedy rarely occurs to them—remove the rule.