Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. |
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. |
Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it? I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;... In every man there is something which to a certain degree prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself; and this may be the case in so high a degree, he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself. But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all. |
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. |
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. |
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. |
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. |
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both. |
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. |
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never. |
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never. |
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do |
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. |
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. |
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. |