in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?
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Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.
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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings: always darker, emptier, simpler.
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Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.
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Everything good, fine or great they do is first of all an argument against the skeptic inside them.
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The God that Paul invented for himself, a God who "reduced to absurdity" "the wisdom of this world" (especially the two great enemies of superstition, philology and medicine), is in truth only an indication of Paul's resolute determination to accomplish that very thing himself: to give one's own will the name of God, Torah, that is essentially Jewish.
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The modern scientific counterpart to belief in God is the belief in the universe as an organism: this disgusts me. This is to make what is quite rare and extremely derivative, the organic, which we perceive only on the surface of the earth, into something essential, universal, and eternal! This is still an anthropomorphizing of nature!
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.
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With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe their power. In the actual act of deception they are overcome by belief in themselves. It is this which then speaks so miraculously and compellingly to those who surround them.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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