The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

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.

You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is allpurely secondary--and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism.

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

The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

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