“Too fair to worship, too divine to love.”

History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.

Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.

The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.

Rebirth. Entropy. Beauty. Chaos. Divine feminine.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

The greater number of people take their opinions on trust, to avoid the trouble of exercising their own minds, and these indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the spirit of a law, divine or human.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.

The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you?

If you break the shell of your personality, you will simply be present – as life is, as the Divine is, just a Presence.