Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.

On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.

I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.

Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.

No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.