Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.

When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.