For man, 

as for flower 

and beast 

and bird, 

the supreme triumph 

is to be 

most vividly, 

most perfectly 

alive.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

For both faith and want of faith 

have destroyed men alike.

Your soul is a dark forest. 

But the trees are of a particular species, 

they are genealogical trees.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns 

in order to look at things in a different way.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. 

Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. 

Never try to correct them. 

On the contrary: rationalise them, understand them thoroughly. 

After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Integrity without knowledge 

is weak and useless, 

and knowledge without integrity 

is dangerous and dreadful.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

The real voyage of discovery consists 

not in seeking new landscapes, 

but in having new eyes.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas 

but the march of events.

Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.