For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.

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

Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to form a party, an interest group, a mass movement, but wanted to be what he was, the truth, which is related to the single individual. Therefore everyone who will genuinely serve the truth is by that very fact a martyr. To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd.

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.