Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.