People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.
God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.
Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive.
A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.
For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.
When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out.
It is the distance between us that creates language.
The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.
All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most human beings forget what they have understood, recover another sort of childhood that can last all their lives. It is not a true childhood but a kind of forgetting. Desires and anxieties are there, preventing you from having access to the essential truth.
We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.
The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
Humility is the daughter of truth.
It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.
I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just forcing myself not to go berserk, just trying to see truth in the lie, to see it in full context, and in a dimension in which it has got to be more than just a lie, possibly the profoundest kind of truth.
If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy.
Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and the companions of a chain-gang have everything to lose by mutual insults.
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