Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying yes to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects.