“Popular beliefs on essential matters must be examined in order to discover the original thought.”

Have the wisdom to abandon the values of a time that has passed and pick out the constituents of the future. An environment must be suited to the age and men to their environment.

Routine and prejudice distort vision. Each man thinks his own horizon is the limit of the world.

A man can’t be judge of his neighbor’ intelligence. His own vital experience is never his neighbor’s.

If the Master teaches what is error, the disciple’s submission is slavery ; if he teaches truth, this submission is ennoblement.

The first concerning the ‘secrets’: all cognition comes from inside; we are therefore initiated only by ourselves, but the Master gives the keys.

For knowledge, you should know that peace is an indispensable condition of getting it.

The only active force that arises out of possession is fear of losing the object of possession.

In every vital activity it is the path that matters.

The way of knowledge is narrow.

An answer if profitable in proportion to the intensity of the quest.

Understanding develops by degrees.

What reveals itself to me ceases to be mysterious for me alone: if I unveil it to anyone else, he hears mere words which betray the living sense: Profanation, but never revelation.

True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awaking of consciousness which goes through successive stages.

Every man is rich in excuses to safeguard his prejudices, his instincts, and his opinions.

Grain must return to the earth, die, and decompose for new growth to begin.

By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains conviction. When you know, dare.