Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.

We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.

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.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.