He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.
In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.
The opposite of every truth is just as true.
I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love.
She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.
Faith is stronger than so-called reason.
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.
One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: “Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept.” That was clear to me now.
In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child ’s soul with poetry every day.
When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.
Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself.
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls.
Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.
Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.