Everything we do consciously remains for us.

People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.

I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.

One cannot keep all old views and opinions and acquire new ones.