I must find a truth that is true for me.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.

It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.