What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

The melancholia of everything completed!

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.