You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.

What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?