That’s always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.
And in fact you’re not like everyone else: you weren’t ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.
Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions – it’s like a dream.
Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.
In a way there’s only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.
For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.
Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?
A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.
Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.
It’s a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.
Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it’s even very beautiful.
He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.
I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don’t succeed, I quit!
Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!
I am crazy about mysterious things.
I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.
Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.