My sorrow is my castle.

The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.