The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler