It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

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.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.