Fear and Trembling

"In Hegelian philosophy, the outer (the externalization) is higher than the inner."

"Infinite resignation is the last stage before faith, so anyone who has not made this movement does not have faith, for only in infinite resignation does an individual become conscious of his eternal validity, and only then can one speak of grasping existence by virtue of faith."

"It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance."

"Is there such a thing as a teleological suspension of the ethical?"

"Faust fulfills this idea. Anyone who has a notion of what it means for a person to live on spirit also knows what the hunger of doubt means and knows that the doubter hungers just as much for the daily bread of life as for the nourishment of spirit."

"Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that which unites all human life is passion, and faith is a passion."