The Kingdom of God is Within You.

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.

But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.