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

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

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 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.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.