Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.

...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.

Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see

Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid.