I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

The goal is to know how not-to-know.

He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up, gradually, a complete unit of consciousness. And each unit of consciousness is the living unit of that great social, religious, philosophic idea towards which humankind, like an organism seeking its final form, is laboriously growing.

Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.

Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.