An die Wahrheit der geistigen Welt glauben: das ist Religion. *** Die Dinge der Welt gehen langsam. Ginge die Entwicklung zu rasch, so würde das Individuum gar keinen Raum haben, zu leben. Die Geschichte ist ihrer Natur nach universell. Di…

In his splendid essay called "On an Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual," Schopenhauer points out that when you reach an advanced age and look back over your lifetime, it can seem to have had a consistent order and plan, as th…

Si notre cœur était assez large pour aimer la vie dans son détail, nous verrions que tous les instants sont à la fois des donateurs et des spoliateurs et qu'une nouveauté jeune ou tragique, toujours soudaine, ne cesse d'illustrer la discon…

This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought—our thought that bears the stamp of our age and our geography—breaking up all the ordered…

[the Demiurge] began to think of making a moving image of eternity: at the same time as he brought order to the universe, he would make an eternal image, moving according to number, of eternity remaining in unity. This, of course, is what …

Einstein was asked toward the end of his life if he had any regrets. He answered: "I wish I had read more of the mystics earlier in my life." Becoming Christian Mystics Again | HuffPost

In Aion, Researches Into the Phenomenology of Self, Carl G. Jung cites Eckhart approvingly in his discussion of Christ as a symbol of the archetypal self. Jung sees Eckhart as a Christian Gnostic. The world-embracing spirit of Meister Eckh…

Der Mensch ist nur ein Schilf, das schwächste in der Natur, aber es ist ein denkendes Schilf. --Blaise Pascal