Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.