We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. The most important motive for study at school, at the university, and in life is the pleasure of working and thereby obtaining results which will serve the community.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all. The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indespensible precondition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself is not enough. If the possibility of the spiritual development of all individuals is to be secured, a second kind of outward freedom is necessary.