Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let goof the earth.

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.