Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. |
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt. |
One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so. |
No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth. |
Evil is whatever distracts. |
Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb. |
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted. |
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. |
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it. |
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe. |
The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings. |
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. |
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened. |
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law. |
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. |
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. |
Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. |
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. |
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 avoid. |
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. |