The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart.