St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

Hitler's movement is near to Mohammedanism.

It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.

The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.