Everything we do consciously remains for us.

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

It reminds me of two drunks leaning on each other.

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.