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

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

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

You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

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.