The Gods Look In Pleasure On Penitent

The Usual Reproach Against The Essay, That It Is Fragmentary And Random, Itself Assumes The Givenness Of Totality And Suggests That Man Is In Control Of This Totality. The Desire Of The Essay, Though, Is Not To Filter The Eternal Out Of The Transitory; It Wants, Rather, To Make The Transitory Eternal.

The Hardest Hit, As Everywhere, Are Those Who Have No Choice.

The Almost Insoluble Task Is To Let Neither The Power Of Others, Nor Our Own Powerlessness, Stupefy Us.

A German Is Someone Who Cannot Tell A Lie Without Believing It Himself.

The Straight Line Is Regarded As The Shortest Distance Between Two People, As If They Were Points.