God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.

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

The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.

Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

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

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.