I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

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

... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.