A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.
To accomplish nothing and die of the strain
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.