When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.