The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one trip than to be walked along.

In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.