Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.