It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.