Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can control. … [T]he safety which is guaranteed by well-functioning mechanisms for the technical control of nature, by the refined psychological control of the person, by the rapidly increasing organizational control of society – this safety is bought at a high price: man, for whom all this was invented as a means, becomes a means himself in the service of means.

I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!

One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.

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

In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.