To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.