What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

Try to be free: you will die of hunger.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.