Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.