Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.

The thing that cowardice fears most is decision

The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.

To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.

...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.