“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

I asked god, “why do we sin?” God replied, “The roses in the garden smell delightfully, but in your vase, they rot, just like people in conditions that don’t belong to them.”

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

How short the happy moments seem and how endless the sad ones.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream to find out why they’re falling in.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.