From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.

The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him.

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.

Most of us are addicted to non-active reading. The outstanding fault of the non-active or undemanding reader is his inattention to words, and his consequent failure to come to terms with the author.

The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used.

In short, we can only learn from our "betters".

What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

Love does not claim materialistic possession of any kind, it yields complete freedom.

All that a man hath will he give for his life.

Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator, offer ourselves to him, helpers and companions.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.

Struggle is actually something that is important to the process of understanding what true happiness is.

Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in the practice of self-control.