You have given me a gift such as I never even dreamt of finding in this life.
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Many complain that the words of the wise are always merely parables and of no use in daily life, which is the only life we have. When the sage says: Go over, he does not mean that we should cross over...
It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague...
Nothing, nothing, the whole long day, nothing.
I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us...
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what...
Devilish in my innocence.
Das Negative zu tun, ist uns noch auferlegt, das Positive ist uns schon gegeben.
Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avo...
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Lost among these entirely strange people.
I was heading for the city in the south, of which they used to say in our village:‘There are people for you! Just think—they never go to sleep!’‘And why don’t they?’‘Because they’re fools.’‘Don’t fool...
I only fear danger where I want to fear it.