Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.