Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.