A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.

What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.

I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.