But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

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

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

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

If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.