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

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.

Genius never desires what does not exist.

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.