The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

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

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.