You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

What is gayer than believing in a household god?

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.