Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be attained--in success--and its attainment is historically recorded. The religious goal remains, even in man's highest experiences, that which simply provides direction on the mortal way; it never enters into historical consummation.

He who desires to become aware of the hidden light must lift the feeling of fear up to its source. And he can accomplish this if he judges himself and all he does. For then he sheds all fears and lifts fear that has fallen down. But if he does not judge himself, he will be judged from on high, and this judgment will come upon him in the guise of countless things, and all the things in the world will become messengers of God who carry out the judgment on this man.

Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.

All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.