Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.