Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")

Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.