Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.