Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.