“Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.”

One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.

Only super-efforts count.

Believe nothing, not even yourself.

You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.

To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.

Love without knowledge is demonic.

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.

Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.

Begin with the possible; begin with one step.

Remember yourself always and everywhere.

By teaching others you will learn yourself.