The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property..

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am Go….

If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start opera….

Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt..

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in ma….

But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the ….

I shut the front door upon Christ and Einstein, and at the back door hold out a welcoming hand to little frogs and periwinkles. I believe nothing of ….

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be ….

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, s….

Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who be….

Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts..

The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely..

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards..

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day..

Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be c….

All would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned..

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it..

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere..