Poets are witnesses to Being before the philosophers are able to bring it into thought.

The instincts of man are so earth-bound that they shrewdly sense it whenever the approach of logic threatens them.

Faith can no more be described to a thoroughly rational mind than the idea of colors can be conveyed to a blind man.

The bomb reveals the dreadful and total contingency of human existence. Existentialism is the philosophy of the atomic age.

Anyone who attempts to gain a unified understanding of modern art as a whole is bound to suffer the uncomfortable sensation of having fallen into a thicket of brambles.

A recognition of limits, of boundaries, may be the only thing that prevents power from dizzy collapse.

Jaspers sees the historical meaning of existential philosophy as a struggle to awaken in the individual the possibilities of an authentic and genuine life, in the face of the great modern drift toward a standardized mass society.

Journalism has become a great god of the period, and gods have a way of ruthlessly and demonically taking over their servitors.

Where feudalism is concrete and organic, with man dominated by the image of the land, capitalism is abstract and calculating in spirit, and severs man from the earth.

The decline of religion in modern times means simply that religion is no longer the uncontested center and ruler of man's life, and that the Church is no longer the final and unquestioned home and asylum of his being.