Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of man's total being. They all are united in the act of faith.

For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.

Forgiving presupposes remembering.