The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.

You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?

What labels me, negates me.

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).