Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

The goal is to know how not-to-know.

The dead don't die. They look on and help.