Consciousness and Self-Knowledge

It is the brain's full and absolute responsibility to evolve, nobody will do it for it, and grace and salvation do not exist. The brain must take its place as the source of grace and learn to operate itself properly. In fact, its transformation will begin when it will bear all responsibility alone.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God or God only a blunder of man?

I am a wanderer and mountain-climber, said he to his heart, I love not the plains, and it seemeth I cannot long sit still.And whatever may still overtake me as fate and experience—a wandering will be therein, and a mountain-climbing: in the end one experienceth only oneself.

Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: ‘What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?

Only those thoughts which come from walking have any value

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

[ On James Joyce :] An essentially private man who wished his total indifference to publicnotice to be universally recognized.

[ Contrasting writers in the United States and in Eastern Europe :] In my situation, everything goes and nothing matters; in their situation, nothing goes and everything matters.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt .

Every person’s feelings have a front-door and a side-door by which they may be entered.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

I thought a minute, and says to myself, holdon,—s’pose you’d a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than what you do now?No, says I, I’d feel bad—I’d feel just the sameway I do now. Well, then, says I, what’s the use you learning to do right, when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

Division and differentiation are the processes by which things are created. Since things are emerging and dissolving all the time, you cannot specify the point when this division will stop.

Those who travel outward seek completeness in things; those who gaze inward find sufficiency in themselves.

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

The eye which sees all objects reversed retains the images for some time.