The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

Libraries raised me.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

I kinda live where I find myself.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I’m still trying to figure it out.