Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.