It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

The true word leads; the untrue misleads.