Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.