The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn.

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

Man in the world's life works out the dreams of God.

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.

To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.