Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.