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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.


In the fight between you and the world, back the world.


It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.


My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.


The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.


If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.


God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.


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.


From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.


Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.


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 thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.


Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.


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.


Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.


Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.


Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.


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.


A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.