“It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego.”
“Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought”
“Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.”
“Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.”
“It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”