In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower.

The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.