The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

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

So eager are our people to obliterate the present.