Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

The doer alone learneth.