Evil is whatever distracts.

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

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

We are separated from God on two sides; the fall separates us from Him, the tree of ife separates Him from us.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

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.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.