Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself..

A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time in order to see theself, or its shadow,….

Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us..

A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind, but no institutions, no organiz….

Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living..

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledg….

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning..

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation..

Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect finally lays down it….

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just bec….

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life..

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true indi….

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is tha….

Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this fai….

Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage..

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life..

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall co….

The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it becomes for us the mos….

By an individual being, whatever one's metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its own type, or is such ….

Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails..

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will..