Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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.
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...
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...
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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 conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
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.
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
What our age lacks is not reflection but passion.
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...
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward.
Adversity not only draws people together but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.