Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is wavering, there is disobedience down at the bottom.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

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.