My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.

Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.

When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?