I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.