One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering...

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in...

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

Despair, night in the grieving senses.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life.

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful,...

Writers speak stench.

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Evil is whatever distracts.