An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.

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