Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.

Plato was a bore.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.