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

Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance; what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes.

What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

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

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