Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.

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

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.