"The tragic and the comic are the same, insofar as both are contradiction; but the tragic is the suffering contradiction, the comical the painless contradiction."

"The ethical individual is the one who chooses himself, and thereby chooses the universal."

"The highest of all is not to understand the highest, but to act upon it."

"Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do."

"The infinite resignation is the last stage before faith, so that anyone who has not made this movement has no faith; for only in the infinite resignation does one become conscious of one's eternal val…"