I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.