Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?