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I am fully qualified to work as a doorkeeper,
and for this reason:
What is inside me, I don’t let out:
What is outside me, I don’t let in.
If someone comes in, he goes right out again —
He has nothing to do with me at all.
I am a Doorkeeper of the Heart, not a lump of wet clay.
Man is nothing but contradiction; the less he knows it the more dupe he is.
It is dangerous to abandon one’s self to the luxury of grief, for it deprives one of courage and even the wish for recovery.
Great men are the true men, the men in whom Nature has succeeded.
I prefer those men of genius who awaken in me the sense of truth, and who increase the sum of one’s inner liberty.
It is not at all necessary to be great, as long as we are in harmony with the order of the universe.
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood… the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
Your disposition will be suitable to that which you most frequently think about, for the spirit is, as it were, tinged with the color and complexion of its own thoughts.
Instead of every man directing his energies to freeing himself, to transforming his conception of life, people seek for an external united method of gaining freedom, and continue to rivet their chains faster and faster.
By faith it appears that in order to understand the meaning of life I must renounce my reason, the very thing for which alone a meaning is required.
This fault in us I find,
The error of our eye directs our mind:
What error leads must err; O, then conclude
Minds sway’d by eyes are full of turpitude.
By Jove, I will not speak a word:
There is between my will and all offences
A guard of patience.
The friction of a thousand interests evolves a condition of electricity in which men are moved to and fro without considering their steps. Yet the agitated pool of life is stonily indifferent, the thought is absent or preoccupied, for it is evident that the mass are unconscious of the scene in which they act.
No thought which I have ever had has satisfied my soul.
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else’s manufacture is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make as good money! An obliging stranger, under pretence of compactly folding up my bank-notes for security’s sake, abstracts the notes and gives me nutshells; but what is his sleight of hand to mine, when I fold up my own nutshells and pass them on myself as notes!
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself, always.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.