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There is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He is the highest point of the scale, pure act and active power, the purest light.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.