Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

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.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.