Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.

Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.

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.

However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.

Hope is passion for what is possible.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.