People cannot stand too much Reality.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.

No concept is a carrier of life.

The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands.

To make what fate intends for me my own intention

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary