In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.

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.

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

Throwing your heart into something is great, but when any one thing becomes all that you stand for, you're vulnerable to an identity crisis when you pivot to a Plan B.

funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

If you're in bad mood, take a deep breath.If you're in good mood, give thanks to God.

When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.

The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

We broke the world to make it whole.