I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.

So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.

We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only thorough experiment.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.