Truth is not introduced into the individual from without but was within him all the time.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Don't forget to love yourself.
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they thin...
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else...
What our age lacks is not reflection but passion.
The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think...
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.