The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.

The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.

There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us.