To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.