Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

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.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.

The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.

The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.