He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.

Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that person and death knows this, as does whoever has fallen into the catastrophe of a deep depression, anyone who has loved a woman to the dregs, anyone who has beaten others bloody or ever come up behind another person with muscles trembling. "Losing one's head," language calls it. Emotional experience is, in itself, poor in qualities; qualities are brought to it by the person who has the experience.

and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism, it does seem that the naked fundamental experience itself, that primal seizure of mystic insight, stripped of religious concepts, perhaps no longer to be regarded as a religious experience at all, has undergone an immense expansion and now forms the soul of that complex irrationalism that haunts our era like a night bird lost in the dawn.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.