Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

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.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.

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

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.