We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.

Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those who mock at or oppose you, for they do you good; crucify your self-love and acknowledge the wrong, the error of your heart. But have the deepest pity for those who mock at words and works of faith and piety, of righteousness; for those who oppose the good which you are doing... God preserve you - getting exasperated at them.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

Future is everything that past has forgotten.

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