What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

The last Christian died on a cross.

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.