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

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.