“The first thing necessary in teaching is a master; the second is a pupil capable of carrying on the tradition.”

Knowledge is consciousness of reality. Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow.

If you would build something solid, don’t work with wind: always look for a fixed point, something you know that is stable… yourself.

All seed answer light, but the color is different.

The key to all problems is the problem of consciousness.

A house has the character of the man who lives in it.

No discussion can throw light if it wanders from the real point.

A man’s heart is his own Neter.

Your body is the temple of knowledge.

We mustn’t confuse mastery with mimicry, knowledge with superstitious ignorance.

Envious greed must govern to possess and ambition must possess to govern.

If you defy an enemy by doubting his courage you double it.

What you are doing does not matter so much as what you are learning from doing it.

A pupil may show you by his own efforts how much he deserves to learn from you.

When the governing class isn’t chosen for quality it is chosen for material wealth: this always means decadence, the lowest stage a society can reach.

Each truth you learn will be, for you, as new as if it had never been written.

The body is the house of god. That is why it is said, “Man know yourself.”