The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.

...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

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.

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.