Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.