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

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

It is impossible to exist without passion

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

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage; he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines.