I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.

I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.