The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.