The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

The true leader is always led.

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.

All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.

It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.