What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life |
What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. |
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. |
Whenever books are burned, sooner or later men also are burned. |
Wisdom is not communicable. |
Wisdom is only taught through experience. |
Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves |
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. |
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. |
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. |
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. |
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing el |
You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present. |