Jo Franz Quotes

George Best was one of the most talented players of all time and probably the best footballer who never made it to a major world final.

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development.

... All these preparations clearly show that a human being must perfect himself in the physical world through his magical development in order to be prepared for the higher astral world after death.

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom

If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- Franz Bardon

It is in an ennobled soul only that the universal powers can do their work, especially if body, mind and soul have been equally trained and developed.

One reads in order to ask questions

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

Love is a drama of contradictions.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.

Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.