When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete everybody will respect you.

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality but morality touched by emotion.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human if one only interprets this correctly.

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites it is simply flowing between them.

Having had that experience... I think what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.