“Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.”

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?

Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

Our bodies are molded rivers.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.

Play is experimenting with chance.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?

You have the power to create and choose your reality.

The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.

A just society is that society in which ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society.

Stop caring about what other people think of you – they will not create your success.

When you’re feeling doubtful, remember that an idea set forth with hard work can create miracles.

Forcing things only creates more tension in the mind. Let go.

Creating is the essence of life.

Less stuff creates more opportunities, no matter the season.