He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases...

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity – all but the possibility of improvement.

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it – what is said.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

Nothing exists except through language.

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught...

There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.

For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his...

God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk.

There are three principles in a man’s being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that...

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

The more we have the less we own.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

Pure thought is itself the divine existence; and conversely, the divine existence, in its immediate essence, is nothing else than pure thought.

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education – aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness – presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Solitude is the place of purification.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk.

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Words derive their power from the original word.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish;...

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

The state is not abolished, it withers away.