The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.

And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?

If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?