Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from what he essentially is. His….

In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character..

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions..

Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern..

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning..

...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines..

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith..

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom..

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite..

The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe ..

Forgiving presupposes remembering..

Destiny is not a strange power which determines what shall happen to me. It is myself as given, formed by nature, history, and myself. My destiny is ….

The first duty of love is to listen..

In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful….

The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be defined a….

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him..

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves..

Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love..

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness..

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate..

But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the des….