There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
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.
It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
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.
In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
Solitude is independence.
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
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.