The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

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

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Where there are two people, there is untruth.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.