Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.

... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how can we keep the bonds of our humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity?

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.