Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.