It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do.