Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.