Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?

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

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself.