Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.

Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.