Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil.

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.