Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

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

Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth; later we can often sense a deep pain that they leave us indifferent where earlier they enchanted us.

Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

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

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.

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.