"The present age is an age of dissolution, an age of disintegration, an age of destruction."

"The knight of faith is the only happy man, the heir of the finite, whereas the knight of infinite resignation is a stranger and a sojourner."

"The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all."

"The present age is an age of reflection, an age of calculation, an age of prudence, an age of prudence in its highest degree."

"The ethical is the universal, and the universal is the ethical."