One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the lord is my shepherd!

Yes, life is a woman!