...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science and technology - while in the other, certainty and confidence steadily decline. Our age is a master in developing truths while being wholly indifferent to certitude. It lacks confidence in the good.

To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.