The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one trip than to be walked along.

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.

The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Only the moment counts. It determines life.

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.