Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Alt trans. "Faith which has not doubt is dead faith."
At times to be silent is to lie.
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
The most tragic problem of philosophy is to reconcile intellectual necessities with the necessities of the heart and the will.
Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.
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