Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.

Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying yes to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects.