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Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than “The Individual.”

Individuality Quotes

Be that self which one truly is.

Individuality Quotes

God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing.

Firsts Quotes

As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.

Worship isn’t God’s show. God is the audience. God’s watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines.

Actors Quotes

It’s better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion.

Passion Quotes

Only the Eternal is always appropriate and always present, is always true. Only the Eternal applies to each human being, whatever his age may be.

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler.

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

Firsts Quotes

Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it.

I have attacked no one as not being a Christian, I have condemned no one.

The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.

Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe.

The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

There is a view of life which conceives that where the crowd is, there is also truth. There is another view of life which conceives that wherever there is a crowd, there is untruth.

Language is partly something originally given, partly that which develops freely. And just as the individual... can never reach the point at which he becomes absolutely independent... so too with language.

Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.

No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.

Whoever has the world’s treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

In relation to the labyrinth of her heart, every young girl is an Ariadne; she owns the thread by which one can find one’s way through it, but she owns it without herself knowing how to use it.

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love.

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

My tactics were, by God’s aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive – and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved... He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.

Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes – and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.

Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.

The stone that was rolled before Christ’s tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher’s stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

May new sufferings torment your soul.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

Only one human being recognized as one’s neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love.

He follows his heart’s desire, but having found what he sought he wanders round to everyone’s door with his song and speech, so that all can admire the hero as he does, be proud of the hero as he is.

That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself.

The genius differs from us men in being able to endure isolation, his rank as a genius is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we men are constantly in need of “the others,” the herd; we die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the herd, of the same opinion as the herd.

It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men’s lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.

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