A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.

The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work.

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.