"Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret both. Laugh at the world’s follies, you will regret it; weep over them, you will also regret …"

"What is important is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die."

"The crowd is not merely untruth, but also, and even more so, an un-Christian concept."

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."

"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but He does what is still more wonderful: He makes saints out of sinners."