Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.

The face is the soul of the body.

What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

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.