Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.

... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.

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

What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

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

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.