On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.