My standpoint is armed neutrality.

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

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.

Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.