At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous wills while the soul is left in cold desolate misery. What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium. Physical labor may be painful, but it is not degrading as such. It is not art; it is not science; it is something else, possessing an exactly equal value with art and science, for it provides an equal opportunity to reach the impersonal stage of attention.

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

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.