The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

You see all of us go through the same doubts. We are afraid of being mad; unfortunately for us, of course, all of us are already mad.

Man has a dark side, yes, and it is called stupidity.

... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.

The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.