There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.

Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.

Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.

Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.

Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality.

I was always the weirdo at school. When I became a model [at 16], I didn't tell anybody. I was terrified that the kids would rip me to pieces.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.