The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

The inner man has access to the sense organs of god.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.