The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is established just because proof is not enough. It is this characteristic of language, at once indispensable and inadequate, which shows the reality of the external world. Most people hardly ever realize this, because it is rare that the very same man thinks and puts his thought into action.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.