The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible than elsewhere.

The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole planet cannot be in greater anguish than a single soul. The Christian faith - as I view it - is the refuge in this ultimate anguish. To whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart.

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things

Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.