Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.