Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

I do not see the world at all; I invent it.

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.

All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.