Who said “Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push…”?

“What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.”

“All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.”

“We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious.”

“The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.”

“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.”

“Optimism is the opium of the people.”

“Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.”

“The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.”

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

“I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.”

“Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.”