The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas!

In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.

The sure path can only lead to death.

It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return.

The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.