One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to the last simpleton, uses them. But a person who follows through an idea in his mind is, and always will be, essentially unpopular. That is why Socrates was unpopular, though he did not use any special terms, for to grasp and hold his 'ignorance' requires greater vital effort than understanding the whole of Hegel's philosophy.

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.