“Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection”

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

It is impossible to exist without passion.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Boredom is the root of all evil.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

What labels me, negates me.

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!

I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.

Your faith is only as strong as the test it survives.

He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.

Faith without doubt is addiction.

I agree that faith is essential to success in life, but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death.

Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors.

He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.