Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.