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

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.

Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Fear is the absence of faith.

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