One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

The God that can be named is not God.

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

When you say 'Yes' or promise something, you can very easily deceive yourself and others also, as if you had already done what you promised. It is easy to think that by making a promise you have at least done part of what you promised to do, as if the promise itself were something of value. Not at all! In fact, when you do not do what you promise, it is a long way back to the truth.