The healthy man does not torture others—generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers...with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling...

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

The afternoon of a human life must also have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.

Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.