Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

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.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

The devil is an angel too.