I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.

God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

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.