 The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. |
| A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. |
| Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. |
| One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. |
| There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution. |
| May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. |
| In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. |
| Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. |
| Writers speak stench. |
| It is often safer to be in chains than to be free. |
| Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. |
| Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. |
| If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. |
| The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. |
| It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. |
| Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. |
| Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. |
| By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself. |
| Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. |
| My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me. |
