Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.