Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.

...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.

And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.