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.
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.
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
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.
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.