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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.