If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.

Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.