Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.

The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.

To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.