The God that can be named is not God.

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.