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

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

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.

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.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

I’m just trying to show people that I ain’t gotta ride off no movement. I can ride off myself.

The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery … As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

The mind of man is capable of anything.