The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man.

If you think you understand, it isn't God.

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.