Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

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

Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

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

Only the moment counts. It determines life.

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.