Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.