Once you label me you negate me.

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

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

I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.