“Man must learn to increase his sense of responsibility and of the fact that everything he does will have its consequences.”

Altruism is the mark of a superior being.

The seed cannot sprout upwards without simultaneously sending roots into the ground.

If you would know yourself, take yourself as starting point and go back to its source; your beginning will disclose your end.

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.