There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
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.
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.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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.
Dread of night. Dread of not-night.