"The aesthetic existence is despair, whether it knows it or not."

"My life is an inexplicable contradiction. I am one who has been made to smile by the thought of hanging myself."

"The task is to understand myself, to understand what I am to do, to see what God really wants me to do."

"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen, but, if one will, are to be lived."

"An illusion can never be destroyed directly, and only by indirect means can it be radically removed... That is, one must approach from behind the person who is under an illusion."