Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation.

Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.