Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man, and this immediately, though, of course, only in the case of complete and permanent humility.
How can one be glad about the world except if one takes one’s refuge in it?
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
Heaven is dumb, echoing only to the dumb.
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
Evil is whatever distracts.
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
Dread of night. Dread of not-night.
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.
