"The most common deception of all is the deception that one is not deceived."

"The task is to understand myself, to understand what I am to do, to see what God really wants me to do."

"The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self."

"The aesthetic is the immediate, the ethical is the choice, the religious is the infinite passion of inwardness."

"The most painful state of being is rememberin' the future, particularly the one you'll never have."