“Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection”

The world, good and evil, the heights and the depths.

It is the contact with great masses of people who are seeking fir the moment only well-being and not salvation that weakens and devalues the indigenous population.

It is not the contact with an essentially foreign population that corrupts the inhabitants of the great foreign resorts.

And in this fashion learns to know oneself,

All cultural, religious, and political efforts and ideals are crippled since the culture is engaged only in luring ever more tourists.

Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious.

An encounter with god or with the transcendent, per se, can only occur when we experience the violent side of god.

The indigenous peoples of the great tourist spots seem to lose their souls.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.

If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.

How can anyone be against love?

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.