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

Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.

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

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

Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.

In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently what is often regarded as "political" activity is in fact a criminal activity.

There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps it is all nothing but a dream.