The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions
Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
The imagination. . . that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.
What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear.
There is a direct line that runs from our doctrine to our actions, from what is in our minds to what is in our words and ways. . . The heart spills over into life. Thoughts of God, and of all else, erupt into acts. The filling of the heart with wise thoughts of God becomes the most important, the most practical, business in the world.