With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

The Bible is God's love letter to us

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.