It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

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.

Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.