If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.

The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.