... aside from the financial aspect, [there] is more: the life of my work. I feel that is all I came into the world for, and have ...failed dismally if it is not a success.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object, ...so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is... beginning, that is to say, action.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the t...rust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the tru...e nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself... within the limits of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Lif...e, lest we might eat of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »