Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

A day is a miniature eternity.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.