"Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made"
"We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us"
"We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so"
"God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them"
"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached"
"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"
