It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

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

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.

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

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