Novelist

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

Anak muda berbahagia karena memiliki kemampuan melihat keindahan. Siapapun yang menjaga kemampuan untuk melihat keindahan tidak akan pernah menjadi tua.

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

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

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

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

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.