The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.