There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
The faster you go, the shorter you are.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
The environment is everything that isn’t me.
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.