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

The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.

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.

Everything we do consciously remains for us.

The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity.

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

If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself.