We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

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

Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?