To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.