Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.