It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.