It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

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.

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.