The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.