I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.

Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.