We understand nature by resisting it.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

When the image is new, the world is new.

Our house is our corner of the world.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

In the current era, to take adjustments in worldly interactions is knowledge (Gnan). One is to adjust to ‘disadjustments'.

This world made by humans for themselves is most unfriendly towards humans. What irony.

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

People fall in love for mysterious reasons.

I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.