"The final aim of Zen is the experience of enlightenment, called satori."

"In the nineteenth century, one could say : “God is dead.” In the twentieth, one must say that man is dead."

"There are many who believe that humans are sheep; there are others who believe that humans are wolves."

"For Goethe the flower is so much alive that it speaks and warns him; and he solves the problem differently from either Tennyson or Basho."

"Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly in large numbers, who want to consume more and more and whose tastes are standardized."

"Whether or not we are aware of it, there is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves."