Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon he is again placed on reconnaissance for expectancy; then he is again relieved, but as long as there is any future for him, he has not yet finished his service. And while human life goes on this way in very diverse expectancy, expecting very different things according to different times and occasions and in different frames of mind, all life is again one nightwatch of expectancy.

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes - we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.