The dread of sin can sometimes in effect drive a person into sin through dread.

The profundity of Christianity is that Christ is both our redeemer and our judge, not that one is our redeemer and another is our judge, for then we certainly come under judgement, but that the redeemer and the judge are the same.

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.

What, then, is depression? It is hysteria of the spirit.

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known--no wonder, then, that I return the love.

With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair.

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

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.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it.

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

The moment is not properly an atom of time but an atom of eternity. It is the first reflection of eternity in time, its first attempt, as it were, at stopping time.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self… And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

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

Our age reminds one of the dissolution of the Greek city-state: Everything goes on as usual and yet there is no longer anyone who believes in it. The invisible spiritual bond which gives it validity, no longer exists, and so the whole age is at once comic and tragic -- tragic because it is perishing, comic because it goes on.

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.