I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.

The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.

Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.

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