Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation.