Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.

We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.