Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.

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

When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is not on the strength of his thoughts and dreams as a whole, but only of that infinitesimal part which has been able to make its way through the narrow channel of language and the equally narrow channel of the reader's understanding.

But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.