...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.