If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.

If a man’s house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we conclude he is intelligent.

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.

If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.