"And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
"The most common form of despair is not being who you are."
"What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement."
"la vida sólo puede ser entendida mirando hacia atrás; aunque deba ser vivida mirando hacia adelante"
"Sitting calmly on a ship in fair weather is not a metaphor for having faith; but when the ship has sprung a leak, then enthusiastically to keep the ship afloat by pumping and not to seek the harbor--that is the metaphor for having faith. (Concluding Unscientific Postscript)"