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I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.
Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.
I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.
There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.
It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.
Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.
Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love
To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.
Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.
To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.
Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.
The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.
Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.
God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing
Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?
A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way.
Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.
Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.
In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.
What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.
Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.
To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.
Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.
To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.
My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.
This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.
To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.