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

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.

Worship isn't God's show. God is the audience. God's watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines.

It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.