The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.

Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.

We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one