It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.

That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.

God loves everyone in the world who doesn't love himself. Does God love God?

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is to say are taken from two quite different times.