"The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply: Create silence! Bring men to silence!"

"I am a living demonstration of the fact that a man can remain a virgin until he is 30, and yet be a man."

"The most tremendous energy of which the world is capable is the spiritual energy of a man who is in despair."

"I see it all, I understand it all, I grasp it all, but I do not want to obey."

"The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off as quietly as if it were nothing at all."