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View all →"The company of educated women is most pleasant. Their thinking is flitting, rambling. They are always trying to keep away from animalism (for the evolution of female dress is nothing but a striving for the idealization of the human body.) They have much delicacy and tenderness, and also pure, unselfish love."
"Avoid: He who wears a false gold chain, a jewel of glass. Whose every word is honey. He that immediately blackens, whom you praise. Who says: - There is no God! Who spends more than he is worth."
"Anyone who wants company is in spiritual need. A barrel that can no longer be filled with its own wine."
"The child cannot exist without company. The Gypsies and all uneducated people wander around in company. The peasant goes out of the gate on Sunday as soon as he is dressed. He looks for someone to talk to. The great of mankind liked to live in privacy. A French writer said: - "I am honored when someone visits me, but everyone is pleasing me when he doesn't. This suggests that company is not exactly a necessary condition of life. The physically weak feel protected in company, the mentally weak thus seek to trigger their thoughts. To be forever in company is as foolish as to live forever alone. But in any case, if you have to choose between the two excesses, it is more pleasant and useful to do the latter."
"If necessity throws you into contact with a person who is not suited to you, you should immediately find urgent things to do to get rid of him/her, and if not, be patient and silent as long as necessity clamps you to him/her. When choosing your entourage, don't look: Who is poor? Who is rich? Who is short? Who is tall? Just look at: Is his collar clean? By clean I don't mean just the clothes."
"But there is no such thing as a life that is completely wrong. Everyone brings with him the powers acquired in previous bodily lives. It is in the little apple seed whether it will be a Szercsika or a Sikulai or a King of the Pippins. Even if we are not aware of it, we develop according to our predispositions, and only when we are mature do we realise what powers we had in our childhood. It is also a failure of life if all our work and all our thought is the acquisition of wealth. We save first to prepare for the seven lean years. We save then to live in abundance, then so that our children will not have to work, and even then we save because we have become accustomed to it, because we have forgotten the purpose. We no longer collect to live, but live to collect. And we collect, we collect: we have no thought, no desire, no action, only collection, the multiplication of money. Finally, death pulls our hands off the money bag. - Has such a man lived rightly? Life is work, but man is not a hamster. The purpose of life is progress towards perfection. Work is only a stepping stone. The church is higher up. He who walks blindly and aimlessly up the stairs, hits a wall. And do our feet walk the path of our child? As one of the tasks of our life has been work, so will the next generation after us. Are we doing their work? Shall we hang the apple on the seedling's head, and say to him: - "Never trouble yourself with the fruit, my soul, for we have already borne fruit for you. What shall he do now? A man either builds or destroys, but he must act. If our offspring lives for his offspring, he also will waste his life. If he does not live for his descendants, he will destroy: he will be a waster, a gambler, a gambler, a horse-runner, a gun-carrier, a xenophobe, a brawler, in short: - a man of distinction. Rarely do such people find a new space for action. So you work: plough, sow, reap. But it would be a sin for you to gather so much seed that your descendants need neither plough nor sow! As soon as you have insurance against scarcity, turn your attention to the development of your spiritual life. Your emblem should not be the golden calf, but the captive stork, the wing-barred angel chained to the earth, brooding upwards."