The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

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

There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.