The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
From Franz Kafka
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.
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.
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