If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

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

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Resist much. Obey little.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

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?

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.