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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.