The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.