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….

Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he is a machine….

Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is the mechanical….

We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them..

A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false..

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….

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined..

To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state o….

Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If you try to do too much you will do noth….

You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This means you can judge other peopl….

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it..

Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other..

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essent….

Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and shou….

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….