Occupation: Philosopher Birth: August 20, 1886 Death: October 22, 1965
There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God..
[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in the ….
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity..
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free..
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being..
We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness ….
Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradox….
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it..
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned..
Boredom is rage spread thin..
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God..
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….
The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled with thanks for his very b….
In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it also produced, in rea….
One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by mind or in….
In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character..
Astonishment is the root of philosophy..
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt..
Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers..
Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable..
You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; p….