“In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”

“This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.”

“This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.”

“But happiness only if I can raise the world into the Pure, the True, the Immutable.”

“The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.”

“Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world...”

“there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak”