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.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.

For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.

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

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance with Eastern systems of healing. The Spirit of the East surges through every pore as a balm for all afflictions.