"The highest stage a man can reach is that of being a paradox."

"The greatest good is not to be born, the second is to die soon."

"The present age is an age of dissolution, an age of disintegration, an age of destruction."

"The religious individual is the one who lives in fear and trembling before God."

"The most tremendous energy of which the world is capable is the spiritual energy of a man who is in despair."