Prayer Is A Silent Surrendering Of Everything

One Could Construe The Life Of Man As A Great Discourse In Which The Various People Represent Different Parts Of Speech (the Same Might Apply To States).

I Would Rather Be A Swineherd, Understood By The Swine, Than A Poet Misunderstood By Men.

Men Are Not On Such Intimate Terms With The Sublime That They Really Can Believe In It

A 'no' Does Not Hide Anything, But A 'yes' Very Easily Becomes A Deception.

Sin Is: Before God, Or With The Conception Of God, In Despair Not To Will To Be Oneself, Or In Despair To Will To Be Oneself. Thus Sin Is Intensified Weakness Or Intensified Defiance: Sin Is The Intensification Of Despair. The Emphasis Is On Before God, Or With A Conception Of God; It Is The Conception Of God That Makes Sin Dialectically, Ethically, And Religiously What Lawyers Call 'aggravated' Despair.