Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed.

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.