To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.