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

A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.

I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another

You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This means you can judge other people's knowledge but you cannot judge their being. You can see in them only as much as you have in yourself. But people always make the mistake of thinking they can judge other people's being. In reality, if they wish to meet and understand people of a higher development than themselves they must work with the aim of changing their being.

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

We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.