"We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself"
"Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines"
"However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream"
"But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?"
"We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life"
"The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such"
"If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed"
"One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder"
"I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values"
