Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.

If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.