Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.