In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

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.