The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.

Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.