If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

To be a saint is to will the one thing.

Be that self which one truly is.

If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is high time that I take advantage of this and promptly begin with the quadrille--people would presumably laugh a little at him, but in the world of spirit this is very plausible. What, then, is education? I believed it is the course the individual goes through in order to catch up with himself, and the person who will not go through this course is not much helped by being born in the most enlightened age.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.