The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

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.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

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

Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world.