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

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

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.

Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.

In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.

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

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