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

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim.

The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.

Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.