Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.