How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.