We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

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

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an obstacle on their travels. They travelled to seek money and business, and for weddings, and on pilgrimages, and the river was obstructing their path, and the ferryman's job was to get them quickly across that obstacle. But for some among thousands, a few, four or five, the river has stopped being an obstacle, they have heard its voice, they have listened to it, and the river has become sacred to them, as it has become sacred to me.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.