The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

The world is God's language to us.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.