The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.

The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.

YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested.

We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it? Only the perfect man, the God-man. The rest are all idolaters. So long as we see this universe before us, with its forms and shapes, we are all idolaters. This is a gigantic symbol we are worshipping. He who says he is the body is a born idolater.

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts