Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity..

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation..

Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable..

Boredom is rage spread thin..

Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more c….

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion..

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge..

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself..

Being human means asking the questions of one's own being and living under the impact of the answers given to this question. And, conversely, being h….

Every person, every place and every action is qualified by this association with the unconditional; it penetrates every moment of daily life and sanc….

There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God..

Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the c….

Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is t….

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….

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….

The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions..

One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life..

Astonishment is the root of philosophy..

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated..

Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the o….

I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its a….