To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to give away a ducat to every one of the poor - but let him also be stupid enough to begin this charitable undertaking of his with a defense in which he offers three good reasons in justification; and it will almost come to the point of people finding it doubtful whether indeed he is doing something good. But now for Christianity. Yes, the person who defends that has never believed in it.

The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

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

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

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