"Evil is a radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is a mere appearance; what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes."

"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt."

"The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment. An attempt to falsify the actuality of knowledge, to regard knowledge as a goal still to be reached."

"Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it."

"Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie."

"Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so."

"Association with human beings lures one into self-observation."

"Der Geist wird erst frei, wenn er aufhört, Halt zu sein."

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

"If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief."

"The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings."

"Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it."

"What is gayer than believing in a household god?"

"Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in the world unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not."

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

"One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so."

"There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature."

"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. One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to develop fists, for eyes weaker still it becomes shamefaced and smashes anyone who dares to gaze upon it."

"One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory."

"In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world."

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

"Der Mensch kann nicht leben ohne ein dauerndes Vertrauen zu etwas Unzerstörbarem in sich, wobei sowohl das Unzerstörbare als auch das Vertrauen ihm dauernd verborgen bleiben können. Eine der Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten dieses Verborgen-Bleibens ist der Glaube an einen persönlichen Gott."

"Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. That is not the sort of belief that indicates real faith."

"It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law."

"The way is infinitely long, nothing of it can be subtracted, nothing can be added, and yet everyone applies his own childish yardstick to it. “Certainly, this yard of the way you still have to go, too, and it will be accounted unto you.”"

"Previously I did not understand why I got no answer to my question; today I do not understand how I could believe I was capable of asking. But I didn’t really believe, I only asked."

"His weariness is that of the gladiator after the combat; his work was the whitewashing of a corner in a state official's office."

"Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists."

"Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence."

"In a certain sense the Good is comfortless."

"The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master’s whiplash."

"When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed."

"This Other Eden by Ben Elton"

"Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe"

"That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis"

"Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald"

"The Tempest by William Shakespeare"

"The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin"

"The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare"

"The Tale of the Heike by Anonymous"

"The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman"

"The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo"

"Sybil (1845) by Benjamin Disraeli"

"Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk"

"Summer Book, A by Tove Jansson"

"Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960) by Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone"

"Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) by Robert A. Heinlein"

"Strange Meeting (book) by Susan Hill"

"Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein"

"The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"