When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.