Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

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.

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!