Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life. Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness. Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown

A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.