Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

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.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

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.

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.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.