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 reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

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.