There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.

Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.