Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them.

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.