Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.