A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.

Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.

The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.