"I swear to you, sirs, that excessive..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.”

“To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.”

“Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.”

“Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.”

“Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.”

“The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.”

“Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.”

“But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.”

“Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat a tiny worm. A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds, men were lost arrows. Ghosts sang in the doorway of a few desolate houses. Yet now in a day we leap around the earth or explore a thousand Milky Ways. And if the cowherd who lives on a star asks about the god of plagues, tell him, happy or sad, the god is gone, washed away in the waters. July 1, 1958”