"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth— look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intende…"

"A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the worl…"

"The greatest good is not to be born."

"Purity of heart is to will one thing."

"The aesthetic is the immediate, the ethical is the choice, the religious is the infinite passion of inwardness."