There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.

"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.