Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid.
This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.
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.
Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.
Men who not religious or artists are fools.
I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.
A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning.
We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction.
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.
Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.
Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.
Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.
Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.
Take it and return it: the kiss of love.
The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.
Genius never desires what does not exist.
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do.
There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow.
When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.