The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.

In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas!