It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!