If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

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

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.