A God-intoxicated Man. [ger., Gott-trunkener Mensch.]

Life Is The Beginning Of Death. Life Is For The Sake Of Death. Death Is At Once The End And The Beginning—at Once Separation And Closer Union Of The Self. Through Death The Reduction Is Complete.

Prayer Is To Religion What Thinking Is To Philosophy. To Pray Is To Make Religion.

Character Is A Wish For A Perfect Education.

Friendship, Love, And Piety Ought To Be Handled With A Sort Of Mysterious Secrecy; They Ought To Be Spoken Of Only In The Rare Moments Of Perfect Confidence, To Be Mutually Understood In Silence. Many Things Are Too Delicate To Be Thought; Many More, To Be Spoken.

Everywhere We Seek The Absolute, And Always We Find Only Things.