Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.