Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.