The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

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