A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

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.