“And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision. ”

“To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.”

“-- What, then, does one experience of the You?-- Nothing at all. For one does not experience it.-- What, then, does one know of the You?-- Only everything. For one no longer knows particulars.”

“Feeling one "has"; love occurs.”

“The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.”

“One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.”

“This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being..”