It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.