Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.

One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes, and vice versa.

Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.