Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something

There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.

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

If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire. But if, for the sake of attaining a definite aim, he struggles with desires that hinder him, he will then create a fire which will gradually transform his inner world into a single whole.

Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is the mechanical - mechanical attitudes, mechanical intentions, mechanical thoughts, mechanical desires.