Gustave Meyrink

“The visible world is only an allegory. The reality is the soul.”

“I know that I am a prisoner of this world, but I also know that I am not of this world.”

“Fear is the mother of all gods.”

“The path to the transcendental begins with the bitterest suffering.”

“Every event in the visible world is the effect of an 'image', that is, of a thought in the unseen.”

“What you see before you is a mask. I am not the man I seem to be.”

“Dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.”

“Man is a musical instrument, which has been constructed to sound a certain note.”

“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to 'die before you die' — and find that there is no death.”

“There is a silent, living cosmos inside you; there is a world of sounds and images of which you are unaware.”

“The only true magic is to be able to command one's own will.”

“All that is transitory is but a symbol.”

“To find the Philosopher's Stone, one must have it.”

“Time is a fiction, a creation of our own minds.”

“Perhaps the only real sin is to be unconscious.”

“The kingdom of heaven is a condition of the soul... not a place you go to, but a state you are in.”