“Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.”

This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.

We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.

The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.

Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in “Jurgen” that “to do what you always have done” and “what is expected of you” are the twin rules of life.

There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’

The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel.

When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.

If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.

Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.

The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?

I too searched far and wide for the cure to addiction, but my medical and psychiatric background did not lead me to the cure because the source of addiction does not lie here,.

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.