We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of that joy. ... I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.