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.

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

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

The limited circle is pure.

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

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.