“Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.”

“I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.”

“[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.”

“We shall pick up an existence by its frogs.”

“No conozco ninguna norma en cuestiones de religión, filosofía, ciencia, ni complicación de las tareas domésticas, que no pueda ser moldeada para que se ajuste a cualquier exigencia. Ajustamos las normas a nuestras opiniones o quebrantamos una ley que nos apetece quebrantar”

“One can't learn much andalso be comfortableOne can't learn much andlet anybody else be comfortable”

“If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?”