The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but only just above the ground. It seems intended more to cause stumbling than to be walked upon.
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
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.
The mediation by the serpent was necessary: Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
The limited circle is pure.
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.
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
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.
The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.