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"The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality."
"The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it."
"Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell."
"We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses."
"Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science."
"Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well."
"The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind."
"Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions."
"The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body."
"I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer."
"The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer."
"But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave."
"Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution."
"The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable."
"Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities."
"The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God."
"God is not a dead equation!"
"Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight."
"But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge."
"That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance."