madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.

You must find your dream...but no dream lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular dream.

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.

A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.