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….

Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the t….

Effort plus motive equals result..

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….

Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams..

I have become so accustomed to think "scientifically" that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering of ….

In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but the….

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws..

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..

One cannot keep all old views and opinions and acquire new ones..

There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all..

There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Pe….

If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself..

I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except by an entirely new….

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs..

The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know..

People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep..

If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire. But if, for the sake of at….

Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem..

Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest ….

Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for….