Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other God or the gods and with the human other the stranger.

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly to find your real job and do it.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround culture the political matrix technology etc. and the internal human consciousness.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot that's a very human reaction but you don't go and tell your spouse that you know? So in one way it's how you behave.

You know it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.

Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying with great rigor and discipline to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then only a few feet away in the cookbook section just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

Individual psychotherapy - that is engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient modest and a perceptive listener rather than a talker and advice-giver.

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible horrible horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

In human relationships kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts the will to power at the price of the lives of others.

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president from a murderous general or a beloved leader I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart in the human power to reflect in human meekness and human responsibility.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.