Birth: March 17, 1878 Death: October 2, 1947
Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not become different, everything will be repeated again,….
Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the essential sti….
In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but the….
Art is the communication of ecstasy..
There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all..
The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them..
Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essent….
When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake..
What is the best way to look for one´s chief feature?" someone asked. Simply see yourself. I do not know how to explain it better. It is possible one….
It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning..
Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them..
There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it..
The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in com….
Everything we do consciously remains for us..
It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs..
Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and shou….
I felt that on a basis of a "search for the miraculous" it would be possible to unite together a very large number of people who were no longer able ….
Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy mus….
I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the res….
I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard b….
The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious..