They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

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

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it.