The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the least of a person with his hair parted in the middle or his hands clasped in appeal, but of an extraordinary being with lips of thunder and acts of lurid decision, flinging down tables, casting out devils, passing with the wild secrecy of the wind from mountain isolation to a sort of dreadful demagogy; a being who often acted like an angry god — and always like a god.