“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.

My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

To discover the depth of darkness, you have to speak your mind out loud and be willing to be seen as crazy in the eyes of people because insanity is a duende moving darkness aside, showing what’s behind the black curtains.

We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. … All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.

So many people are insanely busy nowadays, and it’s easy to say, ‘Ah, I’ll workout tomorrow.’ But you have to set aside a time and stick to that schedule.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.