Confidence is the present tense of hope.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.

The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.