"I do not call myself a Christian."

"The aesthetic is that which is immediately perceived, the ethical is that which is chosen, and the religious is that which is believed."

"The self is a relation which relates itself to itself or, what is the same thing, is in the relation's relating itself to itself."

"The highest good is not to be understood as an abstract, but as a concrete, as a personality."

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