Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole planet cannot be in greater anguish than a single soul. The Christian faith - as I view it - is the refuge in this ultimate anguish. To whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart.

In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.