A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.

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

Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.