We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.