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| The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. | | Uncategorized | |
| The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency | | Enemies; Freedom | |
| There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism | | Uncategorized | |
| There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception | | Uncategorized | |
| There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. | | Talent | |
| There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. | | Improvement; People; Universe | |
| There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness | | Uncategorized | |
| There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving-by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. | | Uncategorized | |
| There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. | | Uncategorized | |
| They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are | | Uncategorized | |
| Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something | | Achievement; Belief | |
| Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself | | Thought | |
| To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior "righteous indignation" - this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats | | Uncategorized | |
| To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs | | Uncategorized | |
| To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. | | World | |
| Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body | | Uncategorized | |
| Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. | | Uncategorized | |
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| We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have learnt that nothing is simple and rational except what we ourselves have invented; that God thinks in terms neither of Euclid nor of Riemann; that science has "explained" nothing; that the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. | | Uncategorized | |
