It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

I have attacked no one as not being a Christian, I have condemned no one.

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.