Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

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

It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.

...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.