It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

With respect to love we speak continually about perfection and the perfect person. With respect to love Christianity also speaks continually about perfection and the perfect person. Alas, but we men talk about finding the perfect person in order to love him. Christianity speaks about being the perfect person who limitlessly loves the person he sees.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.