One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.