“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.”
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
