Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each year new, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually born again in thought.

The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.

I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.

When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.