There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

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

One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to the last simpleton, uses them. But a person who follows through an idea in his mind is, and always will be, essentially unpopular. That is why Socrates was unpopular, though he did not use any special terms, for to grasp and hold his 'ignorance' requires greater vital effort than understanding the whole of Hegel's philosophy.

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.