 Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. |
| Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. |
| When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. |
| It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. |
| Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. |
| Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. |
| All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. |
| Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader. |
| Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. |
| Solitude is independence. |
| Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. |
| To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. |
| I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. |
| You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. |
| The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. |
| Only the ideas that we really live have any value. |
| Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. |
| What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find. |
| Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves. |
| Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. |
