For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!