What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.

Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.