The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.

When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.

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.

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.