Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.

I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

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

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

Worship isn't God's show. God is the audience. God's watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines.