Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance; what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes.

A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?

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.

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.