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.

Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.

Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.