Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

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.