Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the longer the tether of our slavery?
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.
If the soul within us does not change, Judas, the world outside us will never change. The enemy is within, the Romans are within, salvation starts from within!
Love’s feet are always pleased to step on ashes.
The great difference between us is this: you believe you have found salvation, and believing this, you are saved; I believe that salvation doesn’t exist, and believing this, I am saved.
You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.
I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me!
My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.
What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man’s height above the earth – that’s true. Whatever clips off man’s wings – that’s false.
The only way to save yourself is to endeavor to save others.
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Go as far as you can. Go further than you can!
Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished.