"Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair"
"Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza"
"By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself"
"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired"
"Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made"
"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"
"If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted"
"Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence"
"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"
"Religions get lost as people do"
"It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical"
"In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it"
"Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms"
"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die"
