It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

We exist within the question of God.

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.

Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is precisely Nothingness that makes itself present and felt as the object of our dread.

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.