Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

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

Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away.

Be that self which one truly is.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.

The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!