Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.

The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.