Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying.

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

Solitude is independence.

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.