The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, read more

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that. . . you really must make the self.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for read more

When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to read more

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line.

Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line.

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed read more

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.