What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees!

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new.

I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.