"The task is to understand myself, to understand what I am to do, to see what God really wants me to do."

"Despair is the sickness unto death, this tormenting contradiction, this sickness in the self; it is to be eternally dying, to die and yet not die, to die the death."

"The more a man is himself, the more he is an offense."

"I can sum up in one sentence what directly led to my break with the established order of things: it was the complete and utter lack of seriousness, and that Christianity was being turned into a game."

"The highest good is not to be found in the world, but in God."